246 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



lax scales in frout, third joint very slender, linear, longer tlian second ; antennre 



stont, filiform ; legs ratlier long, bare, spurs very long ; fore tibias short and with a 



pilose appendage beneath. 



' ^' ° CATADA VAGALIS. 



Bocana vagalls. Walker, Catal Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvi. p. 172 (1858), 9 . 

 Catada rjlomeralls, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 210 (1858), 5. 



Male and female. Purple-brown, glossed with purplish-grey in some aspects: 



forewing witli a transverse darker brown sinuous antemedial line, and a medial 



prominent white line, the latter encompassing the reniform mark, which is bianga- 



lated outward at end of the cell ; a black orbicular spot in middle of the cell ; a 



discal zigzag row of black points with pale tips ; four white dots on the costa before 



the apex : hindwing duller brown ; cilia cinereous. Body dark purple-brown ; front 



of head and palpi blackish ; shaft of antenua3, front of head, and palpi edged with 



white ; legs dark purple-brown, with white bauds. 



Expanse, <J f^,, 2 ItV iuch. 



Genus IMMA. 



limna. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 195 (1858), c^'. 

 Phiijram, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 226 (1858), 9. 



Wings small : forewing rather narrow, exterior margin oblique ; cell two-thirds 

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

 sixth, third from close to end, both free, fourth from end of the cell, bifid; disco- 

 cellular erect, bent near the ends, radials from the angles : middle median from angle 

 at end of the cell, lower close to the end ; submedian curved upward : hindwing 

 somewhat produced at the apex, exterior margin very oblique, slightly convex, 

 abdominal margin lanuginose above ; cell two-thirds the length ; two subcostals on 

 a footstalk at half beyond end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from near 

 upper end; middle median from angle below end of the cell, lower near the end ; 

 submedian and internal vein recurved. Body stout, densely clothed ; palpi stout, 

 pubescent, curved upward, third joint lanceolate in male, linear in female, nearly half 

 length of second ; antennee simple, slender ; legs stout, femora fringed, somewhat 

 dilated, tibia) densely tufted in male, in female rather slender and compactly clothed ; 



spurs long. 



IMMA BUGOSALIS. 



Imma Imgosalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 195 (1858), ^J. 

 Piwjrasa accuralis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 227 (1858), J . 



Pale violaceous ochreous-brown : forewing with an indistinct brown outwardly 

 curved lunular mark at end of the cell : hindwing with the outer border dusky 

 brown ; abdomen dusky brown ; tarsi with dark brown bands. 



Expanse -tu inch. 



