166 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



Genus SERRODES. 

 Sen-odes, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 251 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1402. 



Foi-ewing elongated, triangular ; costa arched towards the end, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin oblique, scalloped ; cell extending to half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one- 

 sixth from base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell and joined to third by a short spur near its base ; discocellular bent in the 

 middle and close to each end, radials from upper and lower angles ; middle median 

 from angle near end of the cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian much recurved from 

 the base : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex, scalloped ; cell one-third 

 the length : two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from 

 near lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third ; 

 submedian and interval straight. Body very stout, abdomen tufted at the base, 

 long in the male, and with a divergent anal tuft ; palpi ascending, laxly squamosa, 

 second joint stout, reaching level of the eyes, third joint hnear, one-fourth length of 

 the second in male, one-half in the female ; antennas stout, setaceous ; legs stout, 

 both sexes densely pilose, middle and hind tibice thick, spurs long. 



Ti/pe, S. Campana. 



SERRODES CAMPANA (Plate 167, Fig. 5, ? , 5a, larva). 



Sorodt's Campcma, Guenee, Noet. iii. p. 252, pi. 21, fig. 6 (1852), S ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 xiv. p. 1402. 



Male and female. Umber-brown : fore wing with a black transverse outwardly 

 oblique short basal irregular augulated baud, an irregular angulated subbasal line 

 with a broad black costal end and a broad black triangular patch below the cell ; a 

 transverse discal duplex pale bordered line, which is bent inward at the costal end 

 and there terminates in a dilated black patch, the line being also outwardly diffused 

 with black, beyond which is an incomplete submargiual black-speckled zigzag fascia ; 

 a black punctiform orbicular spot and a large pale-bordered black reticulated reniform 

 mark, the area above the latter being ferruginous-brown, and the remaining portion 

 of the area between the subbasal and discal line being pale ochreous-brown, this 

 colour being also palest in the male : hindwing dusky brown, with a pale ochreous 

 curved discal slender fascia from the anal angle ; cilia at the apex and anal angle 

 also pale ochreous. Thorax and abdomen dusky brown ; collar, front of head, palpi, 

 and forelegs above ferruginous-brown. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Larva thick, semi-looped, with sixteen legs ; two pointed dorsal tubercules on 

 twelfth segment ; colour bluish-grey, numerously speckled with black ; two pale pink 



