392 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



than half the length, broad at the end ; first subcostal at one-sixth before end of the 

 cell, bifid near the base, third close to end of cell, trifid, the third and fourth equi- 

 distant from the fifth ; discocellular inwardly oblique, bent inward at one-third from 

 its upper end, and outward at two-thirds, radial from the upper angle ; middle 

 median near end of cell, lower at one-half: hindwing short, broad, quadrate ; exterior 

 margin angular in the middle ; cell long, about two-thirds the length, wide at the 

 base ; the costal and subcostal much curved upward at the base ; first subcostal near 

 end of cell; discocellular concave ; middle median near end of cell, lower at one- 

 half. Body moderately slender, abdomen not extending beyond hindwings ; antenna 

 broadly bipectinated and ciliated to one-third of the tip ; palpi short, stout, pro- 

 jecting in front, third joint veiy minute, conical ; legs moderately long, rather stout, 

 laxly clothed with hairy scales, which are rather long beneath ; spurs moderately long 

 and stout. Female : forewiug excavated below the apex, sinuous hindward ; hind- 

 wing slightly sinuous. 



Tiipe, L. talaca. 



This genus is allied to Ilijposidra, Guenee. 



LAGYRA TALACA (Plate 185, Fig. 1, laS ?, li larva). 

 Lagyra Talaca, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 59 (1860). ? ; id. xxvi. p. 1484, ? . 

 Chizala deceptatura, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 2G4 (1860), (J. 

 Lagyra hombycaria. Walker, id. xxxv. p. 1539 (1866), (5*. 

 CholUda falcata, Walker, Ms B. M. Coll., S- 



Male. Glaucescent cinereous-brown, very sparsely speckled with darker brown : 

 forewing with an indistinctly defined, narrow, angulated, antemedial darker brown- 

 bordered fascia, and a similar broader medial fascia : hindwing with a similar coloured 

 curved antemedial, and a narrow angulated medial fascia, the two corresponding with 

 the medial fascia of the forewing ; the cilia dark-brown. Palpi and antenna dark- 

 brown. Female glaucescent cinereous-brown, some being tinged with ochreous ; both 

 wings with similar darker fascia. 



Expanse, S l-j^, ? 2^ inch. 



Larva with ten legs ; looped ; pinkish olivaceous-green, minutely black speckled ; 

 with a black lateral spot on the fifth and seventh segments. Pupa olivaceous-green 

 and reddish. 



" Feeds on Jamhona, Gomhretum, and Ficus iJarasitirAis" {Tlnvaites). 



Genus HYPERYTHRA. 



Hyperylhra, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 99 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 124 (18G0). 



Male. Forewing somewhat lanceolate, apex acute ; cell less than half the length, 

 first subcostal emitted at one-fifth, second about one-tenth, quadrifid, the sixth from 

 end of cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly concave, radial from the middle ; 



