210 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Thorax aud base of abdomen crossed by a broad white band ; forelegs with pale 

 bands. 



Ex])anse to- inch. 



Larva semilooped; with 12 legs; minutely hairy; a pointed lump on 12th 

 segment ; colour purplish-black. Pupa reddish, enclosed in a small reddish cocoon 



attached to a twig. 



MESTLETA DIVISA (Plate 17i, Fig. 7). 



Sehnis dii-isa, Walker, Traus. Etit. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. I. p. 107 (1S61). 

 Selenis semilux, Walker, Catal. Lap. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1069 (18f'5). 



Dusky ferruginous-brown : forewing with a broad ferruginous-white costal band, 

 which also crosses the extreme base of the hind wing, and has some short pure 

 white-bordered brown outwardly-oblique streaks on its costal edge, these streaks 

 forming the upper ends of indistinct greyish-bordered black transverse sinuous lines ; 

 a maro-inal row of white outer-bordered black dots : hindwing with indistinct discal 

 transverse ferruginous-brown bordered sinuous lines and a marginal row of white- 

 bordered black dots. Thorax, and base of abdomen crossed by a broad ferruginous- 

 white baud ; legs with pale bands. 



Expanse tI to ttt inch. 



MESTLETA MULTIGUTTATA (Plate 174, Fig. 8). 

 Sehnis multiijuttata. Walker, MS. Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 Dull vinous-brown : forewing crossed by an indistinct antemedial and a discal 

 Avhite-dotted black sinuous line, both of which are bent inward to the costa, followed 

 by a more distinct submarginal and marginal row of white spots, of which those at 

 the apex are the largest ; a white orbicular spot and a reniform spot : hindwing 

 with two white dots within the cell, four confluent irregular discal rows of white 

 spots, and a marginal row of smaller spots. Thorax with a whitish transverse band, 

 abdomen with white dorsal spots. 

 Expanse -^-^ to -n, inch. 



MESTLETA CEYLONICA. 



Thermesia ceylonica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. j). 1061 (1865), $. 



Female. Pale brownish-ochreous, minutely black speckled, the speckles being 

 disposed somewhat in the form of ill-defined transverse strigEe ; with a prominent 

 oblique medial transverse straight purplish-black line, which extends from the apex 

 to middle of abdominal margin of the hindwing : forewing with a small pale yellow 

 spot below the apex, and an indistinct pale cinereous zigzag submarginal line ; costal 

 border broadly purplish-cinereous. Head, palpi, thorax, and bands on forelegs 

 purplish-cinereous. 



Expanse ItV inch. 



