348 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



short, fore tibia) and its basal joint of tarsi, and middle tibiae pilose, spurs slender, 

 unequal. 



Female. No costal tuft on the upper side, and no tuft on the under side of the 

 forcwing; veius of hindwing normal ; middle tibias not pilose. 



GODARA COMALIS (Plate 179, Fig. 2, 2a ^ q , 26 larva). 



Fionea comalis, Giieiiee, Delt. et Pyi'al. p. 368 (1854), $ . 



Goclnra coinalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 809 (1859); Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Mouat. 



vii. p. 383, pi. 12, f. 6; Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1883, p. 134. 

 Pionea mco7na/is', Guenee, Delt. et. Pyral. p. 369, ? . 



Male. Pale ochreous : forewing more or less speckled with cinereous-brown or 

 brownish-ochreous scales, which are mostl_y clustered about the discal area ; crossed 

 by a more or less defined curved subbasal and an antemedial pale-bordered blackish 

 denticulated line, and a similar recurved postmedial line, followed by a marginal 

 row of minute black points ; two superposed black-bordered pure white spots at end 

 of the cell ; a curved refiexed tuft of grey and black hairs near base of the costa ; 

 cilia edged with cinereous, and continued along the posterior margin to the lobe, 

 wdiere it is edged with black : hindwing ochreous-white, the apical border brownish, 

 with minute marginal dots. Thorax, head, and forelegs pale ochreous, speckled 

 with brown ; abdomen ochreous-white, tip brown. 



Female. Paler : forewing with the white spots less defined ; no costal tuft on 

 the upper side, and no lengthened tuft beneath. 



Expanse $ A, ? -fu inch. 



Larva moderately stout ; pale violaceous-brown ; with a paler dorsal band, and 

 two lateral rows of black dots bordered by a lower white line, below whicli are 

 some minute black dots ; head red ; second segment with a black dorsal band ; 

 front legs black. Pupa pale red ; short and thick ; head rounded, anal extremity 

 obtuse. 



Genus UDEA. 



Udea, Gia'ace, in Duponchel's Catal. Lep. Eur. p. 209 (1844); Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. jMus. 



p. 240 (ISoO). 

 Margaritiii (part) Stephens. 

 tSccqnda (group 4), Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 398. 



Forewing elongated, hardly triangular; cell about three-fifths the length ; first 

 subcostal at one-fifth before end of the cell, third trifid, fifth from the end ; disco- 

 cellular concave, radials from near middle and lower end ; middle median from angle 

 close to end, lower at one-third ; submedian straight, with a slender recurved lower 

 branch : hindwing triangular, exterior margin convex ; cell one-third the length at 



