298 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



the outer edge of tlie band defined by an irregularly-undulated black denticulated 

 line ; a row of black spots along the outer margin ; the edges of the band and the 

 marginal spots bordered with chalybeous-grey ; a similar chalybeous spot at end of 

 the cell on the forewing ; a black-speckled spot at upper and lower end of the cell 

 on hindwing. Legs whitish. 

 Expanse, 6 tuj ? trr inch. 



Genus MARUCA. 



Maruca, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xYiii. p. 540 (1859). 



Siriocauta, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 424 (1863) ; Meyrick, Trans. Eat. Soc. LonJ. 



1884, p. 299. 

 Crochiphora (part), Hiibner. 



Forewing long, apex acute, subfalcate ; cell more than half the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second and third from angle 

 close to the end, third bifid, fifth from the end, curved upward and almost coalescing 

 with third near its base ; discocellular concave, radials from near the ends ; two 

 upper medians from end of cell, upper curved upward and almost touching 

 radial near its base, lower median at one-fifth; submedian slightly curved: 

 hindwing broad, exterior margin convexly angular in the middle ; cell two-fifths the 

 length; subcostals from end, upper partly joined to costal; discocellular almost 

 angular in the middle, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower about one-third, a submedian and internal veins. Body rather slender; 

 abdomen extending one-third beyond hindwings ; labial palpi porrect, broad, pointed 

 in front, laxly squamous, third joint concealed ; maxillary palpi rather short ; 

 antennas slender, submoniliform ; legs smooth, slender, spurs long, unequal. 



Type, M. testulalis. 



MARUCA TESTULALIS. 



Crochiphora testulalis (Hiibner) Geyer, Zutrage Samml. Esot. Schmett. iv. 12, 315, fig. 629-30 



(1832). 

 Stcnia testitlalls, Gnenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 247 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 420. 

 Siriocauta testulalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 424; Meyriok, Trans, Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1884, p. 299; Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1884, p. 39. 

 Ilydrocampa aquatilis, Boisdnval, in Guerin-Meneville's Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. pi. 90, fig. 9 (1844). 

 Maruca aquatilis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 540 (1859). 



Forewing ochreous-browu, clouded with darker brown ; a transverse discal 

 black-bordered hyaline-white band extending from costal vein to lower median, a 

 similar white oblique pyriform spot within the cell, and a punctiform spot below its 

 middle : hindwing hyaline-white, with an irregular black-bordered ochreous-brown 

 marginal band. Cilia brown anteriorly, white posteriorly, with a slender black inner 



