442 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



ieno-tli. broad : two subcostals from the end ; discocellular nearly straight, radial 

 from middle ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at two-fifths. Body short; 

 palpi porrect, small, slender, pointed at tip; antennas bipectinated and ciliated to two- 

 thirds the tip ; legs long, slender, middle and hind tibiae with one pair of slender spurs. 

 Tijpc, C. pendularia. 



CYCLOPHORA PENDULiEIA. 



Phal. Gcometia imndularia, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 327 (1761) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. 7, f. 5. 



Ephyra pendularia, Duponchel, Lep. Fr. viii. p. 35, pi. 172, f. 5 ; Steplieus, lUust. Haiist. iii. p. 199. 



Ci/clopliora pcnihtlaria, lldbiier, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806); Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 127. 



Zonosoma pendularia, Leilerer, Vers. Eur. Span. pp. 10, 30, fig. 6 (1853). 



Ephyra msarmana. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 637 (18G1), ? . 



Whitish cinereous. Wings very sparsely speckled with very indistinct slender 

 black strigee ; a white spot at end of each cell, which is reddish-bordered on the 

 forewing, and black-bordered on the hindwing : foreAving crossed by a curved 

 antemedial and a recurved discal row of black points, and a marginal row of points : 

 hindwing with a discal and marginal row of black points. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



The specimen from Ceylon in the British Museum collection, named Ephyra 

 vusarmana by Mr. Walker, is identical with European specimens of C. pen- 

 dularia. 



CYCLOPHORA ABHADRACA (Plate 199, Fig. 3, 3a, larva). 

 Ejjhyra Ahhadraca, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 636 (1861), ?. 



AVings pale purplish-red; cilia yellow; a pale whitish irregular submarginal 

 patch, which is traversed by an undulating purple-red speckled line ; a purple-red 

 cell spot, which is largest and white-centred on the hindwing. Costal border and 

 base of forewing mostly overspread with yellowish cinereous. Body reddish. 



Expanse to inch. 



Larva long, very slender ; looped ; with 10 legs ; colour purple-black ; some 

 minute white spots on anterior segments, and an interrupted slender lateral line. 

 Pupa slender, purplish, vai'iegated with green segmental bauds and longitudinal 

 black lines, and black stripes along wing cases. 



" Feeds on Eugenia " {Thwaites). 



CYCLOPHORA INVEXATA (Plate 199, Fig. 2, ^ ). 



Epionc invcxaUi, AValker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxvi. p. 1497 (18G2), $. 

 Ephyra moaochromala. Walker, id. p. 1754 (1862), $ . 



Yellow. Forewing with a faint trace of an angular discal pale brownish fascia. 

 .A small white-centred brown cell spot which is indistinct on the forewing. Shaft of 



