190 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



discocellular inwardly oblique, convex in middle, bent near each end, radials from 

 the auales • middle median from ande close to end, lower at two-fifths before the 

 end ; sub-median curved : hiudwing broad, triangular, exterior margin oblique, anal 

 angle very convex ; thickly clothed beneath with raised scales ; cell extending about 

 one-tliird the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, 

 concave, radial from near lower end; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout; 

 palpi erect, second joint reaching level of the eyes, laxly squamose, third joint one- 

 third length of second ; antennaj minutely cihated, with a few fine longer lashes ; 

 femora and tibiae very densely clothed with compactly disposed short hairs ; hind tarsi 

 also very densely clothed with hairs above ; spurs slender. 

 Type, R. frugalis. 



REMIGIA FRUGALIS (Plate 172, Fig. 4, ? , 4^7, larva). 



Noctua fniijalis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 138 (1794). 



Remifjia frugalis, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 314 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1507. 

 Chalciope Lycopodia, Geyer, Hubnev's Zutr. Exot. Schmett. 25, 449, fig. 897-8 (1837). 

 Remifjia translata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1015 (1865), ?. 



Wings pale cinereous ochreous-brown ; forewing with a very indistinct brown 

 erect transverse waved antemedial line, an orbicular dot and an oval reniform mark, 

 followed from the apex by an inwardly-obUque dark brown straight line, the inner 

 border of which is pale and the outer border shaded by ferruginous-brown, beyond 

 which is a submarginal row of black vein-points and a less distinct denticulated 

 marginal line ; a short brown fascia below the cell, and a blackish-speckled spot 

 below middle of the submedian vein is also present in some specimens : hindwing 

 with a transverse dusky-brown discal and a submarginal fascia. 



Expanse 1| to If inch. 



Larva semi-looped ; with twelve legs : pale yellowish-ochreous, with slender longi- 

 tudinal darker ochreous lines, an intervening sublateral row of dark olivaceous spots, 

 and two subdorsal lines ; fifth and sixth segment posteriorly edged with a dorsal 

 black streak. Pupa ochreous-red. 



" Feeds on Zlnziheracece." {Thivaites.) 



Genus CAUNINDA. 



Remitjia (group 2), Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 412. 

 Remigi {]i&n), Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1493. 

 Mods (part), Hiibner, Vei'z. bek. Schmett. p. 267. 

 Drasteria (part), Hiibner, /(/. p. 280. 



Forewing less triangular in form than typical Remigia : hindwing also less 

 triangular. Venation similar. Palpi comparatively more slender, the second joint 



