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THE LEFIDOrrERA OF CEYLON. 



NAUSINOE NEPTIS. 

 rhahvnn Koctna Neptis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 128, pi. 26, fig. F. (1782). 

 Nausiniie Neptalis, Iliibner, Verz. bek. Suhnaett. p. 363 (1825-7). 

 Phalanrjlodes Neptisalis, Gueuee, Belt, et Pyral. p. 279 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. 



p. 467; Snellen, TijJ. voor Eut. 1884, p. 46 ; Meyrick, Trans. Ent Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 295. 

 Phnlanfjodcs Neptis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 445 (1863). 



Brownish oclireous-yellow : forewing with two black-boi'dered white subbasal 

 bands, a small spot in middle of cell, a large irregular-shaped spot from end of cell, 

 and four irregular outer spots : hindwing with the basal half white, enclosing a 

 black-bordered ochreous spot at end of cell ; outer half brownish ochreous-yellow, 

 with two elongated black-bordered white spots. Ciha white, with a slender blackish 

 inner line. Tegulos white bordered ; abdomen with white dorsal bands, which are 

 slightly bordered with black speckles ; legs white ; fore and middle tibise cinereous- 

 brown. 



Expanse ItV to Ircr inch. 



Genus POLYTHLIPTA. 



Poli/thlijita, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 389 (1863). 



Male. Forewing long, triangular, exterior margin very oblique ; cell half the 

 length, narrow ; first subcostal at one-third before end of the cell, second from angle 

 close to end, trifid, fifth from the end, running very close to second near the base ; 

 discocellular slightly concave, radials from the ends ; two upper medians from end of 

 cell, lower at nearly one-fourth ; submedian bent upward near the base, with a short 

 lower branch from its base, which rejoins it at one-third its length : hindwing broad, 

 triangular ; cell about one-third the length ; two subcostals from a short footstalk 

 beyond the cell, upper partly joined to the costal; discocellular concave, radial from 

 lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower close to the end ; a submedian 

 and two internal veins. Body slender, abdomen long, extending much beyond 

 hindwings, apex tufted ; labial palpi porrect, broad, compressed, laxly pilose beneath, 

 third joint half length of second, cyhndrical ; maxillary palpi short ; antenna slender, 

 filiform: le<?s Iouq-, slender, fore tibijB and basal tarsi thickly clothed with long 

 laterally-spreading hairs ; spurs slender, unequal in length. 

 Tv/|)r;, P. macralis. 



POLYTHLIPTA MACRALIS. 



Pohphlijila macraUs, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. pp. 389, 477, pi. 12, f. 14 (1863), ,?. 



Ochreous-white. Wings semi-diaphanous, opalescent : forewing with an 

 indistinct pale cupreous-brown inwardly-oblique zigzag antemedial and a postmedial 

 band, and a similar marginal band : hindwing with a similar indistinct discal and 

 marginal band. Abdomen with brownish bands ; palpi brown above. 

 Expanse ^ 1 ru inch. 



