438 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



AGATHIA MAGNIFICA (Plate 197, Fir,. 4,?). 

 Aijiithia mwjnifira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 416. 



Brio-lit o-rceu. Wings with a purplish-red undulated bordered marginal baud, 

 enclosiug a lai-ge indentated oval apical green patch and three separated lower 

 inarginarsjjots on the forewing, and on the hindwing a large oval medial marginal 

 green patch; the subcaudal angle with a white spot; the band inwardly traversed 

 by a slight grey line : forewing also wnth a transverse medial undulated uniformly 

 narrow purplish-red band and a short band at the extreme base ; costal border also 

 purplish-red. Cilia purplish-cinereous with darker vein points. Thorax above, and 

 dorsal bands on abdomen green ; vei-tex, antenna?, front of head, abdomen at sides 

 and ti]i, palpi and forelegs above purplish-red ; palpi and body beneath and legs 

 brownish-white. 



Expanse ? It^ inch. 



AGATHIA HEMITHEARIA (Plate 197, Fig. 3, ?). 

 .\;l„t]iia Hanithcaria, Giiciiee, I'lial. i. p. 3,si (1^57); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxii. p. 590 (1861). 



Brio-ht green. Wings with a very broad purplish-red marginal band, which is 

 indentated on its inner edge below the radial and below the lower median, and encloses 

 an indentated quadrate apical green patch and two small paler spots below it on the 

 forewing, and on the hindwing a large oval medial marginal green patch ; a white 

 streak at subcaudal angle : foi-ewing also with a transverse medial deeply undulated 

 narrow purplish-red band, a short basal band, and a costal band. Thorax, and dorsal 

 spots on base of abdomen green ; vertex, antennaj, front of head, tip of palpi, forelegs 

 and abdomen above purplish-red ; palpi and body beneath, and legs brownish-white. 



Expanse S Its, 5 1t% inch. 



Family PALYAD^. 



Wings well developed, smooth ; cilia short. Antenna? very long and slender, 

 rarely ciliate or pectinate ; palpi well developed, ascending. Body slender, abdomen 

 long, smooth ; legs long, very slender, hind tibia? not thickened. 

 Lnrva unknown. 



Genus EUMELEA, 

 .E !««(>?<•((, Wept wood, Duncan's, Nat. Libr. E.'^ot. Motlis, p. 215 (lt>41) ; Giu'tiee, Plial. i. p. 391 



(1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 609 (186S). 

 Amelris U'*''). Iliiljuor, Veiz. Bek. Sclimett. p. 303. 

 Forewinsr elonirated, trianrrular ; costa somewhat arched towards the end, apex 

 acute, slightly falcate, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell half the length ; first 

 subcostal at one-eighth, touching the costal near its end, second approximate, anas- 



