2fiO THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



ORTHAGA JUCUNDALIS. 



Blcptina jucundalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1164 (1865), $ . 



Male. Forewing dark olivaceous ochreous -yellow, the medial area wliitisli- 

 ochreous ; black speckled ; crossed by ill-defined black-speckled erect antemedial 

 and undulated postmedial denticulated lines ; some black streaks at base of the costa ; 

 a marginal row of brown spots ; a tuft of raised scales at end of the cell : hindwing 

 cinereous-ochreous ; with a marginal row of brown spots. Cilia whitish, alternated 

 with black. Body, head, palpi, and legs yellow ; tip of palpi, forelegs, and tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen with blackish-speckled bands. 



Expanse r^ inch. 



Genus STEMMATOPHORA. 



Stemmatophora, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 129 (1854) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 278 

 (1859); Lederer, Pyr. Wieii. Ent. Mou. vii. p. 337 (1863). 



"Wings elongated, narrow : forewing straight along the costa, apex obtuse, 

 exterior border quadrate. Body slender ; palpi straight, squamous, not long, joints 

 indistinct, third joint very short ; maxillary palpi hardly visible ; antennas in male 

 pubescent or furnished with equal cilia3; legs smooth." 



Type, S. exustalis. 



STEMMATOPHORA VIBICALIS. 



Stemmatophora vibicalis, Lederer, Pyr. Wien. Ent. Monats. vii. pp. 338, 457, pi. 7. fig. 4 (1863), ? . 



Forewing ferruginous-brown, minutely black speckled; crossed by an outwardly- 

 oblique antemedial pale-bordered black-speckled waved line, and an inwardly-oblique 

 undulated similar postmedial Hue ; a black lunate spot at end of the cell : hindwing 

 and abdomen cinereous-ferruginous ; crossed by a very indistinct pale discal waved 

 line. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs ferruginous-brown. 



Expanse, ? 1 inch. 



STEMMATOPHORA VULSALIS. 

 Botys Vulsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 671 (1859), 2 . 



Female. Purple-brown : forewing crossed by an indistinct yellowish bordered 

 brown curved wavy antemedial line, and a recurved denticulated postmedial line ; 

 some yellow and black points on the costa between the lines ; a marginal black 

 Imiular line: hindwing yellowish -bronm, exterior border purplish-brown; with a 

 transverse discal brown line. Tip of j)alpi, and fore tarsi, black ; middle tarsi white ; 

 hind tarsi with pale bauds. 



Expanse, 2 yir inch. 



STEMMATOPHORA CASTANOPTERA (Plate 178, Fig. 7, c?). 

 Forewing dark chestnut-brown, sparsely speckled with minute black scales; 



