EllOSIITJyE. 403 



anal end, a middle siibmargiual black lunular line, and a Ijlack streak at end of coll. 

 Front of head, palpi, and forelegs blackish. 



Expanse | inch. 



Taken at " Pelloya" {Green). 



DIRADES IRRORATA (Plate 18G, Fig. 10). 



Cinereoiis-white, numerously covered with purplish black fleckles : forewing 

 with tlu-ee equidistant transverse ochreous fascise, and a marginal series of black 

 points ; a whitish spot at end of the cell : hindwiug with three ill-defined ochreous 

 fascia3, and an interrupted submarginal lunular whitish line ; a triangular white 

 spot at end of the cell. 



Expanse f q- inch. 



DIRADES LATIFASCIATA (Plate 186, Fig. 12, 1'2«, c? ?, 12i larva). 



Grey : forewing crossed by a broad medial dark chocolate brown band, and a 

 narrow marginal streak below the apex ; the inner border of the band bent inward 

 at the costal end and concave below the cell, the outer border broadly convex in 

 the middle : hindwiug with a similar narrower band, which is broken posteriorly, 

 and does not extend to the abdominal margin ; marginal line dark l:)rown, cilia 

 paler. 



Expanse ^ \, ? 1\ inch. 



Larva with 16 legs; short, cylindrical, head small, anal segment truncate; 

 colour dark purple brown ; head and anal segments yellow, black spotted and with 

 a few short black hairs. 



Pupa short, thick, head truncate ; purphsh red with black segmental lines. 



" Feeds on Fagijea zeylanica " {Thwaites). 



DIRADES CONCHIFERATA (Plate 186, Fig. 11). 

 White : forewing transversely blotched and flecked with ochreous red, inter- 

 spersed with blackish speckles along the costal area; the blotches more de- 

 fined across the disc, where they form a lunular fascia and are boi'dered by an 

 inner blackish speckled line ; exterior margin blackish speckled and with a sub- 

 marginal black lunular line : hindwiug with the posterior half ochreous red, very 

 irregularly bordered across the middle, and thickly marked with black strig^ ; some 

 whitish interstices on middle of the abdominal margin ; two slender red streaks 

 also ascending across the disc to the costa. Front of thorax, head, palpi, forelegs 

 above, and tip of abdomen thickly brown speckled. Cilia ochreous red, alternated 

 with black. 



Expanse A inch. 



3 F 2 



