4G2 THE LEriDOrTERA OF CEYLON. 



leo-.s i-ather strong, fore and middle tarsi long ; niiddle tibia? with a pair of slender 

 spurs ; hind tibias inflated, tufted with long fine silky hairs above, spurs not visible, 

 tarsi short. 



Tijpe, P. infantularia. 



PIGIA INFANTULARIA (Pi.ate 203, Fig. 3). 



Pigia tnfantulnria, Giieiiee, Plial. ii. p. 20 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxiii. 



p. 813(1801). 

 Micivnia vanaria, Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. 15. M. xxiii. p. S20 (1861). 

 ? Fhahina opicata, Fabiicins, Eiit. Syst. Suppl. p. 4.57 (17oS). 



Cinereous-white. Wings very minutely brown-speckled; crossed by thres 

 well-defined cinereous-brown oblique lines, the two outer lines proceeding from the 

 apex and the inner line from the subcostal of forewing, each ending on the middle of 

 the abdominal margin of hindwiug ; beyond is a similar coloured speckled fascia which 

 is traversed by a sinuous white line, followed by a slender marginal line. Abdomen 

 with similar narrow segmental bands ; front of head, palpi, and forelegs above dark 

 brown. 



Expanse tV inch. 



Tamily CABERIIDiE. 



"Wings broad, entire, fully extended in repose; very generally white in colour, 

 with but few markings. Body slender; proboscis distinct, palpi porrect or 

 incumbent, never very long ; antennje of male generally pectinated ; legs well formed, 

 hind tibia3 not incrassated, with two pairs of spurs. 



Larva rather long, pedunculiform, slightly swollen posteriorly ; head rounded. 

 Lives on trees, exposed. 



Pupa enclosed in an earthen cocoon or under moss. 



Genus DEILINIA. 



Sphecodes* Hiibner, Tentarnen, p. 2 (180(->). 



JJeil/nia, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 310 (182o-7). 



Cnhera (part), Treitscbke, Scb. Eur. V. 2, p. 437 (1825). 



C'abera, Stepbens, Catal. ii. p. 126 (1829) ; ;>/. Illust. iii. p. ig.^i (1831); Scbott, Scbmctt. Catal. 



]i. 41.) (1830) ; Lederer, Vers. Span. pp. 11, 36 ; Gucuee, Plial. ii. p. .^2 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. 



Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 867. 



Forewing rather short, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell fully half the 

 length ; first subcostal at one-sixth, second approximate, quadrifid, sixth from end of 

 cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from the middle ; the middle median near 

 end, lower at one-third: hindwing short, exterior margin convex, even; cell half tlte 



* Used by Latreille in 1804 for a genus of Hymenoptera. 



