214 • THE LEriDOPTERA OF CEYLOX. 



cellular outwardly-oblique, concave, radial from augle near lower end ; two upper 

 medians from end of tlic cell, lower at nearly one-third ; submedian and internal 

 vein straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi ascending, second joint in male laxly 

 squamose, reaching level of the eyes, broadest at the base, tliird joint about one- 

 third length of second, linear, obtuse at the tip ; antennas in male setaceous, minutely 

 ciliated ; femora and tibias very densely pilose ; spurs stout. 



LACERA ALOPE (Plate 173, Fig. 1 i , 1« liuvn). 



Phahcna Koctua Alope, Ci-amcr, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 268, fig. E. F. (1782). 



Lacera capella, Giiuuee, Noct. lii. p. 337, pi. 24, f. 13 (1852), $ ; Wulker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. 

 XV. p. 1537. 



Dusky feiTuginous-brown, numerously speckled with grey scales : forewing with 

 a short subbasal costal pale ferruginous-bordered black zigzag line, a transverse 

 outwardly-curved medial similar zigzag line, an irregularly undulated discal line, 

 followed by a submargiual pale ferruginous sinuous line ; au indistinct pale ferru- 

 o-inous reniforra mark, which is most defined in the female ; below the cell are some 

 discal zigzag black marks ; a pale ferruginous streak within the upper and lower 

 anoie of the discal hue, both of which are most distinct in the male : hindwing with 

 the outer border more dusky black and grey speckled, and with a discal and sub- 

 marginal pale ferruginous-bordered black sinuous line; marginal lunules black. 

 Thoi-ax, and legs dusky ferruginous-brown ; palpi bright ferruginous ; tarsi, femora, 

 and abdomen greyish-black. 



Expanse 1 1 to 2 inches. 



Larva long, slender, semilooped; with 16 legs, the two first pair of middle legs 

 aborted ; two small conical dorsal prominences on 12th segment ; colour pale green, 

 with indistinct darker green longitudinal dorsal strigas ; some minute black speckles 

 on hind part of segments from the 5th, and a sublateral row of similar speckles ; 

 feet blackish. Pupa purple-red, efflorescent. 



" Feeds on Firunia and (Jaidlnim" (TJiwaitcs). 



Genus AMPHIGONIA. 



Amphiijonid, GiK'uee, Noct. iii. p. 337 (18.32) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1538. 

 Forewing elongated, triangular, apex acute and falcate, exterior margin acutely 

 angular in the middle ; cell extending half the length ; first subcostal emitted at 

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

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

 and slightly touching third near its base; discocellular concave, bent at each end, 

 tlie radials fi'oin the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of cell, lower at 

 two-fifths before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, bi'oad, quadrangular, 

 exterior margin acutely angular in the middle ; cell less than one-third the length ; 



