434 ■ THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva with 10 legs; slender, twig-like; gTeen ; spiracles black; 2nd and 12th 

 segment with a pointed prominence ; head and legs reddish. Pupa green ; abdo- 

 minal segments minutely black-speckled. 



" Feeds on Loranthus " (Thioaites). 



COMBI^NA DIVAPALA (Plate 195, Fig. 2, q 2a larva). 

 Comihixna divapala. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 5"o (1861), ?. 



Dark green. Costal border, a broad patch at the posterior angle, and an 

 angulated white-bordered broad marginal band on the hindwing pale ferruginous, 

 each thickly speckled with dark brown. Cilia pale ferruginous and brown -speckled. 

 Forewing also with a transverse discal sinuous indistinct white line, the lower end of 

 which borders the posterior patch ; two submarginal rows of small ferruginous-white 

 points, a cluster of greyish scales at end of the cell ; and at base of the hindwing a 

 cluster of white scales. Thorax, vertex, and front of head green ; abdomen pale 

 ferruginous and brown-speckled ; tip of palpi, and bands on fore and middle legs 

 ferruginous ; body and legs beneath white. 



Expanse 1t% inch. 



Larva with 10 legs, looped, short ; the segments subdorsally protuberant; 12th 

 segment with a conical protuberance ; colour olivaceous-green, anterior and posterior 

 segments purplish-brown. Pupa greenish-brown, thickly covered with minute 

 purple-brown speckles. 



" Feeds on Myrtus" {ThwaUea). 



COMIB.a;NA SEMIALBA (Plate 196, Fig. 1, q , \a larva). 

 Comihccna scmialba, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 601 (1861). 



Dark green : forewing with a white dentated discal fascia, and a submarginal 

 dentated line, the points of which extend to end of the veins ; marginal dots dark 

 green ; costal border blotched with purplish cinereous-brown scales ; a slight subbasal 

 fascia composed of white scales : hindwing with the outer half white, encompassing 

 a discal series of conical green spots and a submarginal line ; marginal spots greenish- 

 black, cilia whitish. Thorax green ; head brown ; abdomen and legs whitish. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Larva with 10 legs; 2nd, 3rd, and 5th segment with short subdorsal protuber- 

 ances, and 7th and 8th segment with longer pointed protuberances, the jjosterior 

 segment with a point ; colour olive-green, brown-speckled, anterior and posterior 

 segments pale purplish-brown; a double brown line along the back. Pupa greenish, 

 thickly covered with minute j^urple-brown speckles. 



"Feeds on Loranthus" (Thwaites). 



