422 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



broad ; radial vein present. Body robust, hairy, abdomen -woolly beneath ; palpi 

 thick, third joint bare ; antenna3 long, strongly bipectinated in both sexes ; legs 

 robust, hind tibia3 enlarged, grooved beneath and enclosing a long fascicle of silky 

 hairs from the base, spurs short. 



Larva with 10 legs ; when in repose stands erect with the head and anterior 

 segments bent downward ; head rather small. Pupa obtuse in front, anal segment 

 terminated with numerous minute hooked bristles. The moth is diurnal in its habits, 

 remaining out in the evening till just after sunset. 



Genus EUSCHEMA. 



Euschrma, Hubuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 175 (1818-25) ; Walker, Catal. Lop. Ilet. 1',. M. ii. p. 405. 

 IJa:iK, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Eut. i. p. 203 (1832); Gueuee, Phal. ii. p. 1S8 (18.57). 

 Ih'houa (part), Swaiuson, Zool. Illust. 2ud ser. iii. p. IIG (1832). 



Forewing elongate, uaiTow, triangular ; costa almost straight, apex obtuse, 

 exterior margin very oblique ; cell half the length ; first subcostal close to end of 

 cell, second from the end, quadrifid ; discocellular bent obHquely inward near upper 

 end and acutely outward in the middle, radial from the upper angle ; middle median 

 close to end of cell, lower nearly half: hindwing short, very broad, apex and exterior 

 margin very convex, hardly dentate ; cell half the length ; two subcostals from the 

 end; discocellular bent above the middle, concave below; radial from the angle; 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths. Body stout, thorax very laxly 

 clothed, abdomen lanuginose beneath, apex pointed, tufted laterally ; palpi porrect, 

 first and second joints broad, laxly clothed beneath, second joint extending a little 

 beyond the front, third joint cylindrical, naked, as long as the second ; antennre 

 long, bipectinated, the branches stout and ciliated, decreasing to the tip, female less 

 pectinated ; legs stout, smooth above, tibifB fringed beneath ; hind tibite incrassated, 

 grooved beneath and enclosing a lengthened silky tuft from the base. 



Tiipc, E. militaris. 



EUSCHEMA TRANSVERSA (Plate 189, Fig. 3 cJ, 3rt larva). 

 Euscliema transversa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. ii. p. 407 (1854). 

 "Wings very pale cobalt-blue, with a slight purpurescent tinge : forewing with 

 three blue-black basal longitudinal streaks, a short transverse streak from the costa 

 l)eyond, and a round spot below base of lower median ; a large outwardly-conical 

 spot at end of the cell, a transverse zigzag discal band, and an irregular marginal 

 l)iuid : hindwing with a blue-black basal streak, a large rounded spot at end of the 

 cell, and a smaller spot near the abdominal margin ; a slender zigzag discal band, and 

 a marginal row of irregular spots. Thorax pale blue, with two transverse blue-black 

 bands ; abdomen above ochreous-white, with dark purplish-blue bands ; head, palpi 



