394 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



fourth subcostal emitted uear to the first and slightly touching the second beyond 

 its base ; discocellular slender, radial from above the middle ; the middle median close 

 to end of cell, lower about one-third ; submedian recurved : hindwing short ; costa 

 convex, apex excavated, exterior margin convex ; cell about half the length ; costal 

 vein curved upward at the base ; subcostal bent upward to the costal near the base, 

 first branch near end of the cell ; discocellular slender ; the middle median close to 

 end of cell, lower at one-fourth. Body moderately stout; antennse minutely bi- 

 ciliated ; frontal tuft projecting ; palpi obliquely ascending, compactly clothed, second 

 joint reaching beyond the tuft, apical joint short, conical ; legs long, squamous, spurs 

 long, slender. 



Type, F. chromataria. 



FASCELLINA CEYLONICA (Plate 187, Fig. 3, 3a larva). 



Dark olive-green, fading to olivaceous ochreous-brown : forewing with several 

 short blackish transverse strigas, an indistinct blackish-speckled transverse ante- 

 medial, medial, and a postmedial line, the area between the two latter darker 

 coloured, the former line bent inward to the costa, the outer line angulated and 

 obsolescent at the apex ; costal border lilacine-grey : hindwing with a few scattered 

 black scales, and a very indistinct darker transverse fascia. Underside ochreous- 

 yellow ; basal areas palest ; strigee distinct ; forewing suffused with pale violaceous, 

 the base of costa being yellowish ; crossed by a medial oblique ferruginous band, 

 which is angled inward to the costa on its outer end and is also outwardly bordered 

 with a lilacine-white line : hindwing crossed by a broad medial pale ferruginous 

 curved band, the inner border of which is curved, the outer border waved and 

 edged with lilacine-white, this band in F. chromataria being waved on each side, and 

 the inner border merging into the outer and thence ending together above the 

 anal angle. 



Expanse Ittt inch. 



Larva with 1 legs ; looped ; purplish-black, varied with purple-red on anterior 

 segments ; with four pairs of short red conical dorsal prominences ; head cleft above. 

 Papa purple-black, narrow ; head truncate. 



"Feeds on Cinnamomea" {Thivaltes). 



Genus ORSONOBA. 



Orsonoha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 218 (1860). 

 Gonodontis (part) Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 287. 



Forewing rather long, costa slightly arched towards the end, exterior margin 

 oblique, acutely angulated, posterior margin concave towards the end; cell narrow, 

 fully half the length ; first subcostal at one-fifth before end of cell, second close to 



