330 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



UDEA(?) SUFFTISALIS. 



Scopiila siiffnsidis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1471 (1865). 



Dark purplish-lirown. Wings slightly glaucescent : forewing crossed by a 

 cupreous nearly straight antemedial line, a recurved postmedial lunular line, 

 and a marginal line; reniforni mark cupreous: hindwiug with a short cupi^eous 

 inner line from below end of the cell, an undulated discal line, and a marginal line. 

 Cilia with a cupreous inner line. Thorax and base of abdomen, palpi, and fore 

 and middle tibiaa above dark purple-brown ; anal segments of abdomen, and legs 

 ochreous ; head dull ochreous, the front edged with white ; tarsi white. 



Expanse f inch. 



Genus PALIGA. 



Male. Forewing broad, triangular ; exterior margin slightly convex ; cell more 

 than half the length; first subcostal at one-fourth before end of the cell, second 

 trifid ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, radials from the ends ; middle 

 median from angle close to end, lower at fully one-fourth ; submedian straight, with 

 a slender lower recurved branch : hindwing broad, exterior margin very convex ; 

 cell one-third the length ; subcostals from the end ; upper partly joined to the 

 costal ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, radial from lower end ; two upper 

 medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; a submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body rather stout, thorax robust ; abdomen keeled above ; labial j^alpi poiTCCt, 

 rostriform, pointed in front, broad at the base, laxly squamous, third joint concealed ; 

 maxillary palpi oblique, laxly scaled at tip and truncate ; antennse filiform ; legs 

 rather shoi't, middle tibi?e incrassated and slightly fringed ; spurs moderately long, 

 unequal. 



PALIGA DAMASTESALIS. 



Scapula Damastesalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 1013 (1859). 



Ochreous-yellow : forewing with the veins dull crimson-speckled, the speckles 

 being most distinct in the male; crossed by a dull crim.son-speckled subbasal and 

 an antemedial outwardly-oblique zigzag line, and an inwardly-oblique recurved 

 discal denticulated line, followed by a less defined sinuous submarginal line, and a 

 marginal pointed line ; a crimson spot in middle of cell and a lunule at the end ; 

 cilia with a crimson inner line : hindwing paler yellow, semihyaline, with a slight 

 crimson marginal pointed line ; cilia entirely yellow. Thorax, head, and palpi 

 above ochreous-yellow ; thorax crimson-speckled ; abdomen and legs paler yellow ; 

 fore and middle tibiae with ochreous-yellow streak above. 



Expanse 1% to tV inch. 



