asG THE LEPIBOPTEnA OF CEYLON. 



mediau from augle close to end of cell, lower at oue-tbird ; submediau recurved, 

 with a slender lower branch rejoining it at one-third its length : hindwing broad, 

 apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin convex ; cell one-third the length, broad ; 

 subcostals from the end ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; middle 

 median close to end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins. Body rather slender ; palpi porrect, rather broad, pointed in front, third 

 joint concealed, clothed with coarse scales; maxillary palpi oblique, slender; 

 antennce long, thickish, filiform ; legs long, slender, smooth, inner spurs very long, 

 outer short. 



CADARENA SIHTJATA (Plate 183, Fig. 2,S, 2« larva). 



Phalcena simiata, Fabricius, Spec. lus. ii. p. 267 (1781); Eat. Syst. iii. 208 (1793). 

 Phalcena Geom. marginata, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 243, pi. 400, fig. 1 (1782). 



Botys marginalis, SwaiosoD, Zool. lUust. 1st ser. ii. pi. 77, fig. 1 (1821); Guoueo, Delt. et Pyral. p. 

 343; Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xviii. p. 633. 



Lemon-yellow : forewing with a broad carmine-red dentate-bordered costal and 

 apical band, and a short streak at the posterior angle : hindwing with a carmine-red 

 apical and dentate subanal marginal broken band. Cilia at the apex carmine. 

 Front of thorax, head, and palpi above carmine-red ; a longitudinal dorsal carmine 

 streak extending from the collar to apex of abdomen; palpi beneath, and legs, 

 whitish ; fore and middle tibias black above. 



Expanse 11=17 to Ifij inch. 



"Colombo" {Mnchwood). 



Larva thick, attenuated anteriorly; green, with a lateral row of white-tipt 

 black dots bordering a slender dark line. Pupa pale green, yellowish beneath ; with 

 a short anal point and pedal sheath. 



"Feeds on Moduca" {Thwaites). 



Genus HAPALIA. 

 Ilapalki, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 3oo (1825-7); Stephen?, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 417 



(1835). 

 Botijs {Hapalia), Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. iu Brit. Mus, p. 241 (I80O). 



Male. Forewing elongate, rather triangular ; cell more than half the length ; 

 first subcostal at two-fifths before end of the cell, second and third from angle close 

 to the end, third bifid, fifth from the end; discocellular bent near the ends, concave 

 in middle, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of cell, 

 lower at one-third ; submedian straight : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin 

 convex ; cell one-third the length, broad ; subcostals from the end ; discocellular 

 outwardly-oblique, radial from lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of 

 cell, lower at one-third ; a straight submedian and two internal veins. Body slender. 



