408 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



CDSIALA DISTEKMINATA. 



Boarmia distcrminnta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 491 (1860), S . 



Male. Whitis^h. Wings very sparsely irrorated with brown scales ; forewing 

 with a broad medial transverse angulated-bordered brown band : hindwing with a 

 narrow discal angulated brown-speckled band ; some marginal black points on fore- 

 wing towards the apex. Tip of palpi, and bands on legs brown. 



Expanse Jf inch. 



This may possibly be a variety of V. suiasasa, 



CTJSIALA KAPTARIA. 



Boarmia raptaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 373 (1860), 2 . 



Wings white, brown-speckled; crossed by a discal black-speckled angulated 

 denticulated line with outer bordering brown-speckled sinuous fascia, and a similar 

 submargiual fascia ; marginal points black : forewing also with an antemedial less 

 defined black-speckled line and bordering fascia. Body brown-speckled ; a band on 

 front of head, tip of palpi, and bands on forelegs dark brown. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



FAMILY BOARMIIDJE. 



Wings alike in colour and markings, most often dentate, not angular. Fore- 

 wing triangular, apex more or less prolonged, obtuse : hindwing rounded, sometimes 

 more dentated than forewing. Body slender; front not prominent nor tufted; 

 palpi porrect or slightly ascending, squamous, occasionally hirsute ; antennre almost 

 always pectinated or strongly ciliated in male, filiform or dentated or rarely pecti- 

 nated in female ; legs rather long, hind tibia3 mostly incrassated and very long. 



Larva with 10 legs, stick like, without eminences or ordinarily with that on the 

 12th segment, and two lateral projections on the 6th ; head large, flattened in front. 

 Feeds upon trees, plants, and sometimes on lichens. Pupa thick, acute at the apex ; 

 most frequently buried, sometimes amongst leaves. 



Genus MEDASINA. 



Male. Differs from typical Menophra in its much larger size of wings : fore- 

 wing with the costal vein bifid near its end ; first subcostal free in the male, in the 

 female slightly touching the costal above the base of the branch, second trifid, fifth 

 from end of cell ; discocellular bent below the radial ; middle median near end of 

 cell, lower at two-fifths. Palpi porrect, stout, third joint minute, conical ; antennae 

 very long, broadly bipectinated and ciliated. 



Tijjje, M. strixaria. 



