205 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus SONAGARA. 



SoiHigara, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 179 (1882). 



Forewiuo- triangular ; cost a nearly straight, apex acute, exterior margin oblique 

 and slightly convex, posterior angle pointed ; first subcostal emitted at two-thirds 

 before end of the cell, second, third, and fourth near end of the cell and at equal 

 distance from the fifth, third terminating at the apex ; discocellular bent at each end, 

 concave in the middle, radials from the angles ; middle median at one-fifth and lower 

 at more than one-half before end of the cell : hindwing broadly ti'iangular ; exterior 

 margin convex ; first subcostal at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; discocellular 

 shghtly oblique, bent inward at lower end, radial from the angle ; middle median very 

 near end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein at equal distances from lower median. Body short, stout ; palpi ascending 

 and convergent at the tip, second joint stout, laxly squamose, third joint very 

 short, conical ; legs stout, tibite thick, laxly squamose ; antenna3 simple in both 

 sexes. 



Type, S. strigipennis. 



SONAGARA SCITARIA (Plate 175, Fig. 1 ?, la larva). 



Drcpanodes scitaria. Walker, Cafal. Lep. ITet. B. M. xxvi. p. 1488 (1862). 

 Anisodcs j)ijriniata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxvi. p. 1582 (18G2). 

 Thermesin reticulata, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 10G2 (1865). 

 Homodes thermesioidcs, Snellen, Tijd. voor. Eiit. 1877, p. 28, pi. 2, f. 15. 



Male and female. Reddish-ochreous ; crossed by numerous slender red strigas ; 

 with an oblique purplish-brown line extending from apex of the forewiug to middle of 

 the abdominal margin of the hindwing. Body red ; palpi at the tip, forelegs, and all 

 the tarsi dark purplish-brown ; tarsi with white bauds, palest in the female. 



Expanse, ^ |, ? 1^ inch. 



Larva with 16 legs; cylindi-ical ; with a few fine short dorsal hairs; olivaceous, 

 with a few transverse series of black dots on third to last segment; second segment 

 oclircous; head blackish. Pupa dark purplish-brown. 



Genus DUNIRA. 

 Wings broad : forewing elongated, costa almost straight, apex pointed, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique ; cell narrow, extending more than half the length ; first 

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

 from end of cell and slightly touching third close to its base ; discocellular slightly 

 concave, radials from close to the ends ; middle median from near end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third ; submedian almost straight : hindwing short, broad, quadrate, 

 exterior margin angular at end of the lower median vein, abdominal mai^gin short ; 



