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THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



liindwiug short, exterior margin very convex; cell one-third tlie length; two sub- 

 costals from end of cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from near lower end ; 

 two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-tliird. Body stout, smooth ; palpi 

 broad, compressed, obliquely ascending, not reaching higher than the vertex, second 

 joint with short hairy scales in front, third joint extremely small, blunt at tip ; 

 antennae minutely setulose ; legs stout, squamous; spurs long and stout. 

 Tijpe, M. abrupta. 



MESTLETA ABRUPTA (Pj.ate 174, Fig. 2 (^, 2rt larva). 



Mestleta abrupta. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 829 (186.5), S- 

 Eutelia Ivjpcutroides, Walker, MS. Brit. Mus. Coll. 



Pale purphsh ochreous-red : forewing with a prominent purplish-grey centred 

 black obHque discal duplex line, of which the inner side is broadest and bent inward 

 to the costa before the apex, and is also continued in its duplex form across the 

 middle of the hindwing ; forewing also with a subbasal transverse indistinct blackish 

 sinuous line ; a white pointed outer discal line, and a similar submarginal line ; a 

 larcre ochreous-white spot at the apex : liindwiug with an indistinct blackish spot in 

 middle of the cell, a transverse discal and a submarginal sinuous white-pointed line, 

 the latter ending in black anal spots. Tarsi with white bands. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



Larva serailooped ; with 12 legs; 6th, 7th, 8th and 12th segments with a conical 

 prominence ; 5th to last segment with a few short erect dorsal hairs ; 3rd, 4th, and 

 5th segments also with four erect black spatular hairs ; colour reddish, with black 

 streaks and lateral dots, transverse yellowish lateral stripes, and an obhque white 

 stripe across 10th and 11th segments. Pupa reddish, enclosed in a small cocoon 

 attached to a leaf. 



" Feeds on Ficns parasitwus " (Thwaites). 



MESTLETA ANGULIFERA (Plate 175, Fig. 2 g , 2a larva). 

 Mestleta aiigiiUfera, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Alk. p. 179 (1882). 



Pale purplish-ochreous : forewing crossed by an oblique medial narrow brown 

 l)and which is acutely bent inward to the costa near its upper end, an antemedial and 

 a postmedial slender sinuous brown line, both bent inward at the costal end ; a 

 slight brown pale-bordered oblique streak fi-om the apex, which is continued hind- 

 ward in a blackish sinuous line ; a slender pale-bordered brownish marginal line : 

 hindwing with a narrow brown medial transverse band and two indistinct outer 

 sinuous lines. Underside pale brownish-ochreous. Thorax, palpi, and legs ochreous- 

 In-own ; abdomen and band on the tarsi greyish-ochreous. 



Expanse J- inch. 



