47-t THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



above, third joint minute; antennje slender, very finely ciliated iu male; legs slender, 

 long; hind tibia3 with two pairs of spurs. 



OZOLA MICRONIARIA (Plate 204, Fig. 9, 10, (J ? ; lOor, larva). 

 Ozola viicrouiaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1080 (18G2), ? . 

 Phibalapteryx acuta. Walker, uZ.xxv. p. 1340 (1862), ?. 



Pale cinereous-ferruo-inous. Wings numerously black-speckled, the speckles 

 darker and more distinct in the female ; crossed by an ill-defined antemedial and a 

 postmedial black-speckled line, both of which are more diffused in the female and 

 sometimes form dusky fascige ; a distinct black cell spot, and more or less defined 

 subapical spots, and marginal line. Body, and forelegs black-speckled. 



Expanse, <? tV, 2 1 inch. 



Larva looped ; with 10 legs ; greyish, minutely speckled with black. Pupa 

 pale-reddish. 



" Feeds on Premna lafifolia.'" 



Genus NADAGARA. 

 Nadarjara, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1093 (1862). 



Male. Forewing elongate, triangular, apex acute, shghtly subfalcate, exterior 

 maro-in very oblique and slightly convex ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal 

 at one-fifth, bifid near its end, third approximate, trifid, sixth from end of cell ; 

 discocellular slender, outwardly-oblique, radial from the middle ; the middle median 

 very close to end, lower at fully two-fifths : hind wing short, triangular, exterior 

 margin slightly convex ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal very close to 

 end; discocellular extremely slender ; no radial ; middle median very close to end, 

 lower at two-fifths. Body slender ; palpi stout, obliquely porrect, laxly squamous, 

 joints well separated, second joint extending half beyond the head, broad at its end, 

 third joint conical in male, lanceolate in female, half length of second ; antennfB 

 smooth, stout, flattened; legs long, slender, hind tibice with two pairs of slender 

 spurs. 



Type, N. vigaia. 



NADAGARA VIGAIA. 



Nadagara Vigaia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1093 (1862), ? . 

 Purpurescent-cinereous. Wings speckled with a very few black scales ; crossed 

 by an oblique straight dark brown discal line, which extends from the apex of fore- 

 wing to middle of the abdominal margin, and is narrowly bordered on its outer edge 

 by a sharp white Hne, and on its inner edge by a diffused ochreous-brown shade ; 

 the line is slightly dentated at its costal end, and is there bordered by a subapical 

 cluster of black points : forewing also with a curved antemedial series of small black 



