458 THE LEPIDOrTERA OF CEYLOX. 



crossed by an oblique straight oclireous-brown diffuse line from the apex to middle of 

 abdominal margin, and an outer slender line from near its upper end, which is wavy 

 hindward and angular on the hindwing ; some speckles on base of the costa, three 

 or four dots below the apex, and a cell spot, brown. Cilia ochreous-brown. Shaft 

 of antennas and vertex whitish ; front of head, palpi, and forelegs above ochreous- 

 brown. Female with the oblique line more broadly diffused. 

 Expanse, $ IxV, ? Iw inch. 



ERASTRIA AVENTIARIA (Plate 202, Fig. 4, S 4a, larva). 

 Timandrn avcniiaria, Gucnee, Phal. ii. p. 3 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. :M. xxiii. p. 801. 



Olivaceous-green. Wings crossed ])y an oblique slender straight pale outer- 

 bordered darker baud, which extends from near apex of forewing to middle of 

 abdominal margin of the hindwing ; a minute white spot at end of cell of hindwing : 

 forewing also with a curved marginal stripe and the cilia from the apex to angle 

 dark purple. Front of head, palpi, and forelegs above brown. 



Expanse (J ? H '"<^^^- 



Larva slender, looped, with 10 legs ; bright-green ; with minute dorsal acute 

 points or seta3, and two long processes on ninth segment. Pupa narrow, head 

 pointed, purplish, olivaceous above ; enclosed in a loose delicate web. 



Genus RAMBARA. 



Zandoptcnjx * (part), Giieiice, Thai. ii. p. 1.5 (18.57) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxiii. p. 809. 



Male. Wings delicate, semidiaphanous : forewing triangular, aiiex very acute, 

 shghtly falcate, exterior margin slightly convex in the middle ; cell more than half 

 the length ; subcostal running very close to costal its whole length ; first subcostal at 

 nearly one-fourth before end of cell, trifid, fourth from end of cell ; discocellular 

 erect, nearly straight, radial from the middle ; the middle median at nearly one- 

 third, lower more than half before the end : hindwing short, broad, triangular, 

 exterior margin convex ; cell more than half the length ; two subcostals at one-third 

 beyond the cell ; discocellular straight, radial from the middle ; the middle median 

 at one-fifth, lower half before the end. Body very slender, long ; palpi very slender, 

 porrect, extending half beyond the head ; antennifi very long, slender, finely ciliated ; 

 legs very long and slender, middle tibia3 with a pair of short spurs, its tarsi very 

 long ; hind tibise slightly thickened in middle, finely pubescent along outer side, 

 apical spurs very minute, tarsi short. 



Tijpc, R. saj)onaria. 



* The type of Zandopteri/x is a S. American insect, and quite distiuet. 



