248 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



close to lower end ; middle median close to end, lower at two-fiftlis; submedian and 



internal vein recurved. Thorax moderately stout ; abdomen keeled above, crested at 



the base, much attenuated and extending half beyond hindwings in the male, and 



with a clavate appendage above at its tip, which is furnished with two large lateral 



valves; vertex forming a compact flat somewhat raised tablet, which projects a Httle 



above the base of the antenuEe ; palpi obliquely ascending, slightly curved ; second 



joint much compressed, extending half beyond the eyes, smoothly squamose, third 



joint linear, nearly as long as the second ; antennge almost filiform, minutely setose ; 



legs rather long, smoothly squamose, spurs very long. 



Tyye, L. herbealis. 



LABANDA MUSCOSA. 



Othora muscosa, Walker, MS. in Coll. Brit. Mns. 



Lahanda saturalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1251 ( fonlj). 



? Diomea mj/scosa, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 898. 



Female : forewing olive green, densely black-speckled ; costal edge ochreous ; 

 crossed by an outwardly oblique subbasal, antemedial, and a postmedial sinuous black 

 line, followed by a less defined zigzag submarginal line; reniform mark longitudinally 

 oval : hindwing and abdomen purplish-brown ; dorsal tuft blackish. Thorax and 

 head green and black speckled ; two glossy green tufts at base of thorax ; palpi and 

 legs with blackish bands. 



Expanse ? Ittt inch. 



j\roie. — This may probably l)e the female of the preceding. 



LABANDA SEMIPARS. 



BryopMla semipars, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1647 (1858), ? ; Moore, Lep. Ceylon, 



iii. p. 3. 

 Bocana Famphosalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 88V (1859), <2. 

 Ga-hatha laticincta, Walker, !d. xxxiii. p. 913 (I860), ? . 



Male and female. Forewing olivesceut ochreous-brown, in some lights changing 

 to purplish-brown; with a transverse basal indistinct pale olivescent-bordered blackish 

 zigzag line, and a more distinct similar antemedial and postmedial line, followed by 

 a similar submarginal denticulated line, the latter line with two short longitudinal 

 inner black streaks below the apex ; the area between the antemedial and postmedial 

 line pale olivescent-ochreous, speckled with brown scales, and contains a broken 

 black streak at end of the cell and from which extends a slender streak to the lower 

 subapical streak : hindwing purplish cinereous-brown, with a pale olivescent-ochreous 

 denticulated marginal line. Thorax and head purphsh-brown, speckled with ochreous ; 

 abdomen long, extending half beyond the hindwings, purplish cinereous-brown, with 



