218 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



middle legs, the first pair being unfit for walking ; head small and globular. Lives 

 unconcealed. Pupa in a very slight shell. 



Genus CORCOBARA. 



Cvrcohnra, Moore, Desc. Lcp. Coll. Atk. p. 186 (1882). 

 Forewing very long, narrow ; costa slightly arched at the base, from whence it 

 is straight to the end ; apex very acutely pointed ; exterior margin short, upper half 

 erect, concave, and angled outward at end of upper median vein, very oblique hind- 

 ward ; posterior margin broadly convex ; cell extending two-thirds the wing ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, 

 fifth from end of the cell, bent upward and joined by a short spur to third near its base ; 

 discocellular bent at each end, very convex in middle, radials from the angles ; 

 middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at one-half before the end ; sub- 

 median slightly curved near base: hindwing long, somewhat narrow ; exterior margin 

 very obliquely convex, and slightly angular in the middle ; costal vein straight, 

 extending to apex; cell nearly half the wing; two subcostals from end of the cell; 

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

 cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein slightly curved. 

 Body moderately stout, abdomen rather long ; palpi very long, three-eighths of an 

 inch in length, porrect, flat, very compactly squamose, second joint attenuating to 

 anterior end and extending two-thirds its length beyond the head, third joint more than 

 half length of second, truncate at tip ; legs compactly clothed ; antennae very minutelv 

 bipectinated. 



CORCOBARA ANGTILIPENNIS (Plate 176, Fig. 3). 

 Corcohara angulipennis, Moore, De.sc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 186, pi. vi. li:,^ 16 (1882). 



Forewing purplish brownish-ochreous, washed with glaucous grey ; crossed by 

 numerous very indistinct, purplish-grey rather long slender strigas ; the costal and 

 posterior bordei'S sparsely black speckled ; an ochreous reniform mark with a black 

 dot at its upper and lower end : hindwing bright ochreous-yellow, with a large black 

 subapical spot. Thorax, palpi, fore and middle legs in front purplish-brownish- 

 ochreous, fi-out of thorax ochreous; abdomen bright ochreous-yellow. Underside 

 ochreous-yellow ; both wings with a blackish subapical spot, and black speckles on 

 costal border. 



Expanse 2 to 2-^ inches. 



CORCOBARA THWAITESI (Plate 176, Fig. 2, 2a ^ 9, 26 larva). 

 Forewing dark olivescent purplish-brown ; crossed by indistinct pale bordered 

 black, somewhat irregularly disposed strigfB ; basal area below the cell, in male, 

 yellow speckled, and with a short oblique yellowish speckled streak ascending from 



