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■wing rarely falcate or angular ; Inndwing with the exterior margin slightly 

 excavated. Body generally slender ; eyes large ; proboscis well developed ; palpi 

 slender, apart, very short ; antennas of male sometimes broadly pectinated, 

 sometimes merely incrassated ; legs rather short, never pilose, hind tibite often 

 incrassated. 



Larva rather short, slightly thick, not attenuated at the ends ; with distinct 

 lines and spots. Lives exposed on trees or shrubs. Pupa short and obtuse, in a 

 slight web amongst ti'ees. 



Bciiiarh. — No species of this family, of which the European Ahra.ms grossulariata 

 is a well-known representative, has yet been recorded from Ceylon. 



Family LARENTIID^. 



Wings smooth, velvety or silky ; not angular, rarely dentate. Forewing marked 

 with undulating lines, which are often numerous. Body generally slender ; proboscis 

 conspicuous; palpi compressed, approximate, very generally porrect or incumbent, 

 rostriform when they extend beyond the front ; antennae simple, sometimes pubescent 

 or pectinate in the male, never plumose ; legs smooth, slender, hind tibige not 

 incrassated, very generally with four well-developed spurs. 



Larva more or less elongated, sometimes slightly attenuated, cylindrical, or slightly 

 flattened ; mostly of a green colour, with distinct lines ; head generally small and 

 globular. Lives either exposed or in folded leaves on trees or low plants, sometimes 

 in the seeds of plants. Pupa enclosed in an earthen cocoon or amongst leaves. 



Genus LARENTIA. 



Larentia, Treitsclike, Sclimett. Eur. v. 2, p. 440 (1825); id. \]. 2, p. 75 (1828); Diipoceh^li, Catal. 



Lep. Fr. vii. 2, p. Ill (1829); id. viii. 1, p. 360 (1830); Boisduval, Ind. Mi-th. p. 204 (1840) ; 



Guenee, Pbal. ii. p. 271 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1169. (1862). 

 GJaucoptery.e, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 332 (1825-7). 

 Aplocera, Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 141 (1829) ; id. Illust. Haust. iii. p. 295 (1831). 



Male. Forewing triangular, rather long, apex obtuse ; ceU more than half the 

 length ; first subcostal at nearly one-third before end of cell ; second close to end, 

 joined to first for a short distance from near its base, trifid ; fifth from end, slightly 

 touching second above its juncture with first; sixth also from end of cell; disco- 

 cellular concave, radial from its middle ; the middle median near end, lower at one- 

 third : hindwing short, broad ; exterior margin very convex ; costal and subcostal 

 joined from near base to near end of cell; two subcostals on a footstalk about 

 one-fourth beyond end of cell ; discocellular bent outward above the middle, radial 

 from below the middle ; the middle median nearly one-fifth, lower at two-fifths. 



