134 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



discal spot. Thorax greenish-grey, liead and palpi above brown, beneatli yellow ; 

 palpi black tipt ; forelegs brownish above ; abdomen and legs orange-yellow. Female : 

 forewing with darker and more prominent strigse, tlie three longitudinal discal streaks 

 much larger, broader, contiguous, purple-glossed, more narrowly divided, and bordered 

 with white : hindwing and body as in male. 

 Expanse 2\ to 3f inches. 



Genus M/ENAS. 



Mcenas, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Pclimett. p. 264 (1818-25) ; Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 71 (1881). 

 Ophidercs (part), Gneaee ; Walker. 



Forewing elongated, trigonal; cost a slightly arched towards the end, apex 

 acute ; exterior margin oblique, straight, even ; posterior margin recurved, with a 

 slight tufted angle near the base. Palpi short, compactly clothed with short scales, 

 apical joint small, very short and conical. 



M.ffiNAS SALAMINIA (Plate 161, Fig. 1, In, h, larva). 

 PhaJivna Noctua Salaminia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 11 V, pi. 174, fig. a (1779); Clerck, Icones, pi. 



48, fig. 5, 6. 

 Noctua Salaminia, Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. 17 (1793). 

 Mcenas Salaminia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1818-25); Moore, Traus. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 71, 



pi. 12, fig. 3, a, b, pi. 14, fig. 2. 

 Ophidercs Salaminia, Gucnee, Noct. iii. p. 115 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1225. 



Male and female : forewing dark green with golden reflections ; a broad purplish- 

 gi-ey costal band extending from near the base of posterior margin to the apex, and 

 a narrower similar band on the exterior border, the costal band with numerous short 

 green and purplish transverse strigEe which are confluent along the costal edge ; the 

 exterior band with a paler purplish-green inner border ; a distinct red line extending 

 along the discal portion of the lower median vein : hindwing orange-yellow, with a 

 black apical-marginal band, with yellow cilial spots, and a short black bilobed discal 

 band. Thorax, head, paljii, and front of forelegs ochreous-green ; abdomen and legs 

 orange-yellow. 



Expanse 3 to -i^ inches. 



Larva half looped ; with sixteen legs, the first middle pair imperfectly developed ; 

 twelfth segment with a raised conical reddish tubercle ; genei'al colour purplish 

 greyish-black, sparsely greyish-white speckled ; fifth, sixth and seventh segments 

 with a small yellowish-white subdorsal spot, beneath which on the sixth and seventh 

 segment is a red-ringed black ocellus, each with a whitish anterior pupil. Before 

 changing to pupa the colour alters to olive brown, speckled with darker brown, with 

 a pale lateral fascia along the middle segments, and a purplish-brown fascia from 

 the conical tubercle to fourth middle leg. Pupa dark purplish-black. 



" Feeds on Menispermaceaj." (Thwaites.) 



