136 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



end, the apex being produced into a lengthened point ; exterior margin very oblique 

 and convex, the posterior angle very acute ; posterior margin very short in male, 

 lobe much produced, the excavation beyond short : hindwing prolonged anteriorly, 

 exterior margin convex in the middle. Palpi larger and stouter than in allied genera, 

 more laxly clothed, the third joint with a lai'ge laterally compressed dense tuft above ; 

 fore tibia3 in male more densely clothed with longer lateral hairs. 

 Type, A. tyranniis. 



ADRIS ETJTILTJS (Plate 162, fig. 2, $ , 2a, larva). 

 Adris ruiihts, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 70. 



Male : forewing ferruginous, very sparsely speckled with indistinct greenish- 

 ochreous scales, and the veins slightly lined with grey and blackish speckles; crossed 

 by darker wavy chalybeous-grey bordered fascife ; a very indistinct antemedial 

 transverse dusky line, and a prominent postmedial oblique black line ; a cluster of 

 greenish speckles near the base, another cluster on the reniform mark at upper end 

 of the cell, and a few speckles along outer border of the oblique line: hindwing 

 orange-yellow, with an elongated narrow curved black upper discal band and a small 

 shorter black lobate lower discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs in front 

 ferruginous ; abdomen above and beneath, and legs, yellow. Female : forewing 

 darker ferruginous, more prominently speckled ; the veins speckled also more 

 distinct ; and with a whitish patch, below the median vein : hindwing with broader 

 black bands. 



Expanse 3 to 3-J- inches. 



Larva half-looped ; with sixteen legs, first middle pair aborted ; purplish-black ; 

 head and conical prominence on twelfth segment dark dull red ; sparsely speckled 

 with bluish-grey ; spiracles also bluish-grey ; a slender dorsal white line on sixth, 

 seventh, and twelfth segments ; a lateral red-streaked ocellus on sixth and seventh 

 segments, and an oblique yellow black-streaked band extending across the back from 

 tlie last middle leg, a yellow lateral spot also on the twelfth segment. Pupa purplish- 

 black. 



" Feeds on Menispermaces." {Thioaitcs.) 



Family PHYLLODID^. 



Imago large : forewings mostly falcate at the tip, not excavated on the posterior 

 border. Body more or less stout, elongated ; palpi ascending, stout, broad, apex 

 slender ; antennae very long ; legs very long. 



Larva half-looped ; with sixteen perfect legs ; some with, or without, short 

 dorsal conical tubercular prominences. Pupa stout, enclosed amongst leaves of the 

 food plant. 



