230 THE LEPIDOPTETiA OE CEYLON. 



discocellular very slender, concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at onc-tliird ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 stout ; palpi stout, obliquely ascending, compi-essed, second joint laxly squamoso in 

 front, third joint smooth, lanceolate, half-length of second ; antenufe minutely ciliated ; 

 legs stout, smooth ; femora rather broad ; fore tibite short, middle tibiae slightly pilose, 

 hind tibia3 thick, spurs very long. 



NOLASENA FERRIFERVENS (Plate 177, Fig. 9, q). 

 NolasenafcrriferveHS, Walker, Calul. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 982 (1857). 



Cinereous ochreous-brown : forewing with three transverse outwardly-oblique 

 crimson bands; the outer band undulated, and bordered externally by a parallel 

 slender black and white line and a shining glaucous waved band ; a similar glaucous 

 Imnd also between the two inner crimson bands ; a row of indistinct short crimson 

 marginal streaks between the veins, and a marginal crimson lunular line ; some white 

 costal points before the apex : hindwing and body cinereous ochreous-brown. Palpi 

 and legs brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse S ? tV inch. 



Family HERMINIIDJE. 



Forewing stout, pulverose : hindwing with variable markings, but always with 

 some traces of the lines of the forewing ; antennae pubescent, with longer ciha3 on 

 each joint, exteriorly often curled, or tumid, or furnished with a tuft of hairs or 

 scales ; fore tibia3 often tumid and furnished with brushes of silky hairs, or with 

 bunches of woolly or scaly hairs ; palpi variable, generally curved upward, differing 

 according to sex; third joint in the male frequently very long and tufted and bent 

 backward over the thorax. 



Larva short and thick ; with 16 feet. Lives more or less concealed. Pupa in a 



variable shell. 



Genus HERMINIA, 



Hermrnia, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Gen. Crust, et lus. iii. p. 413 (1802); ul. xiv. p. 227 (1805); St. 



Faig. et Serv. Euc. Metli. x. p. 680 (1825). 

 Polypogon* Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. 2, p. 161 (1802). 

 Pogonitis, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. pt. vi. p. 18 (1837). 

 Pecliipofjon, Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Sclimett. p. 344 (1825-27). 



Male. Forewing elongated, rather broad ; costa slightly arched, apex acute, 

 exterior margin oblique, hardly convex in the middle ; cell extending neai^ly three- 

 fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second 



* Previously used in Botany. 



