390 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



oclireous-red costal band and a lunule at end of the cell. Front of head, palpi, and 

 forelegs ochreous-red ; fore tarsi with white bands. 

 Expanse -fu to to inch. 



Family ENNOMIDiE. 



Wings with the exterior margins generally more or less angulated or notched. 

 Antcnnte of male generally bipectinated, with the branches ciliated, in some genera 

 in the female also ; palpi squamous-hirsute, rarely very long, straight or slightly 

 ascending ; legs moderately long, hind tibiae often thickened. 



Larva with ten legs, looped; in some with twelve or fourteen legs, the 

 additional legs rarely used in walking ; elongated, twig-like ; often with lateral 

 projections or dorsal prominences. Lives uncovered on trees and shrubs. Pupa 

 enclosed between leaves, or in the earth. 



Genus ANGERONA. 



Anrjerona, Dupouchel, Lep. Fr. iv. p. 181; Stephens, lUust. Haust. iii. p. 172 (1831); Guenee, 

 Phal. i. p. 114 (1857) ; Stainton, Manual, ii. p. 10 (1859) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 XX. p. 141 (1860). 



Crocota (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 295. 



Ennomos (part), Trcitschke, Schmett. Eiir. vi. p. 41. 



Male. Forewing somewhat long, rather narrow, apex acute, exterior margin 

 slightly convex, hardly oblique, posterior margin almost straight ; cell more than 

 half the length, wide at the end; costal vein forked near its end; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second at one-tenth, trifid, slightly 

 touching the first above base of the fourth; fifth from end of the cell; discocellular 

 concave, i-adial from the middle ; the middle median from angle near end of cell, 

 lower about one-third ; submedian straight : hindwing somewhat long, exterior 

 margin very convex, scalloped ; cell about half the length ; subcostal vein bent near 

 its base, first branch before end of the cell; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave; 

 middle median near end of the cell, lower at one third. Body slender ; antennae 

 bipectinated, the branches ciliated ; palpi slender; legs long, hind tibiae incrassated, 

 spurs short, stout. 



Tyi)(', A. prunaria. 



ANGERONA CESSARIA (Plate 185, f. 7. 7a. S %). 



Boarmia ccsmria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 383 (18G0), S. 

 Angeronia pnedararia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1499 (1862), 9. 



Testaceous ; mostly covered with irregular, transverse, short, brown, confluent 

 strigaj, which ai-e more thinly dispersed along the costal border and basal area of 



