138 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus ISCHYJA. 



Jschyjn, Hiibner, Vei'z. bek. Sclimett. p. 26.5 (1818-25). 



Fotamophom, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 122 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1234. 



Male. Wings large: forewing elongate, triangular, costa convex towards the 

 end, apex very acute, subfalcate, exterior margin oblique, wavy, convex posteriorly ; 

 cell extending two-fiftbs tlie lengtli ; first subcostal emitted at tliree-fiftlis before end 

 of the cell, second at one-fiftb, trifid, tliird at one-fourth from base of second and 

 fourth from near end of third, fifth from end of the cell and slightly touching third 

 near its base; discocellular bent in the middle, radials from upper end and near 

 lower end; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-third; 

 submedian recurved, with a short slender spur from below the base : hindwing short, 

 broad, exterior margin convex, angular in the middle, wavy; cell short, reaching 

 one-fourth the length ; subcostal curved before end of the cell ; first branch emitted 

 before the end ; discocellular concave, radial curved upward from lower end ; medians 

 from end of the cell, middle branch thickened, running alongside and almost joined 

 to the upper branch to half its length, the lower branch being emitted at two-thirds 

 from the base of middle branch ; submedian recurved and contorted at the base, 

 internal vein undulated ; on the upperside the veins from the base are lined with fine 

 woolly hairs, and there is also a tuft longitudinally between submedian and internal 

 vein on the underside, the abdominal margin being dilated at end of the internal vein 

 and there slightly folded. Body stout ; thorax woolly ; palpi ascending, second joint 

 very broad, compressed, laxly squamose, reaching level of the eyes, third joint slender, 

 clavate, nearly half length of second; legs stout, very densely pilose, spurs long; 

 antennse stout, very long, serrated and ciliated in the male, setaceous in the female. 

 Female : forewing broader than in male : hindwing more triangular, exterior margin 

 very oblique ; veins in their normal position. 



ISCHYJA MANLIA (Plate 163, Fig. \,\a,$^,\h, larva). 



Phalfrna Noctua ilanlia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 144, pi. 92, fig. A (1779). 



Noctiia Mcinlia, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 28. 



Ischyja Manlia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 265 (1818-25). 



Fotamophora Manlia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 123 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1234. 



Male : forewing brown, minutely speckled with short transverse blackish striga3, 

 the ground colour being either of a dark ochreous, ferruginous, or purplish-brown 

 tint, the basal half generally darkest and brightest coloured; the outer half sometimes 

 transversely washed with glaucescent-grey, the division across the wing being defined 

 by a greyish-speckled blackish difi"used medial transverse oblique line ; the basal half 

 crossed by two indistinct pale-bordered blackish waved lines, the outer half with a 

 more or less visible brighter coloured fascia, which is defined by the zigzag clustering 



