150 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



tlii-ee outer transverse slightly darker bands. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs dark 

 brown ; abdomen with broad continuous dorsal purplish-black bands, tip, sides and 

 beneath, and fringe of legs vermilion. 



Female. Olivaceous ochreous-brown, tinged with violaceous-brown in some 

 lio-hts : forewing with a transverse oblique pale ochreous-centred blackish subbasal 

 band, which is confluent with a shorter band below the cell ; a curved discal black 

 line, followed by a shorter similar lino ; a prominent black pale-bordered retort- 

 shaped mark, a discal sinuous line with pale outer border, the two latter crossed by 

 the black-lined upper radial and lower subcostal veins ; beyond are two submarginal 

 blackish waved lines, followed by two marginal sinuous lines ; a subapical whitish 

 longitudinal streak extending from the lobe of the retort-mark, and the two upper 

 subcostal veins are also subapically lined with white : hindwing wdth two black 

 medial transverse bands, a pale-bordered discal sinuous line, a prominent black pale 

 outer-bordered submarginal band, followed by a slightly waved outer submarginal 

 line and two sinuous marginal black lines. Thorax, base of abdomen, head, palpi, 

 and legs olivaceous ochreous-brown, with a blackish-brown band in front of thorax 

 and across the tegula3 ; abdomen vermilion, with black dorsal bands. Underside 

 vermilion-red, with three narrow outer transverse blackish bands, a discocellular 

 spot, and a marginal row of dentate spots. 



Expanse 2| to 3 inches. 



SPIRAMA HELICINA (Plate 165, Fig. 4, ■ia,^ ?)■ 



Speiredonia Helicina, Hiibncr, Zutrage, S:niiml. Exot. Schraett. iii. 14, 219, fig. 437-8 (182o), 5. 



Spirama Helicina, Giieiiee, Noct. iii. p. 197 (1852). 



Spiramia Helicina, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1320. 



Male. Smaller and of a darker colour than 8. coJurrens : forewing with a pale- 

 bordered more distinct black subbasal angled line, and more prominent discal 

 sinuous line, followed by four outer sinuous lines : hindwing also with more distinct 

 blackish transverse medial and three outer bands. 



Female also smaller than S. colicerens, much paler : forewing with a more 

 prominent pale-centred subbasal band, with broader outer confluent band below the 

 cell ; the retort-mark, discal bands, and submarginal lines w^ith much paler borders : 

 hindwing also with more prominent and paler-bordered black medial bands, discal 

 line, and the submarginal band with a distinctly formed sinuous outer border, 

 followed by a sinuous line, and the two outer sinuous lines. Body similar to 

 ;S'. cohmrens. Underside similarly coloured ; with the inner and outer blackish band 

 broader. 



Expanse 2^ to 2 J inches. 



