490 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



maroiu hardly oblique ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal at one-third 

 before end of cell, second extremely close to the end, third from the end, bifid ; dis- 

 cocellular deeply concave, radials from extreme upper and lower end ; middle median 

 near end of cell, lower at one-third ; submedian straight : hindwing broad, apex and 

 exterior margin convex ; cell more than half the length ; two subcostals from end of 

 cell ; discocellular concave ; two upper medians on a footstalk at half beyond the cell ; 

 lower at one-fourth. Body short, stout ; palpi porrect, rather slender, second joint 

 projecting half beyond the head, squamous, third joint short, oval ; proboscis long ; 

 antennre setulose; legs rather short, stout ; tibia? thick ; middle tibiae with one pair 

 and hind tibia3 with two pairs of slender spurs, the outer spur very long. 

 Tyfe, E. chlorana. 



EARIAS CHROMATAEIA (Plate 208, Fig. 5). 



Earias chromataria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 204 (1863). 

 Earias annulifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1774 (1866). 



Forewing sulphur-green ; with a reddish spot in middle of the cell and another 

 at its end ; base of costa also reddish ; an angulated reddish-bordered purplish-brown 

 marginal band ; cilia also purplish-brown : hindwing white ; apical margin and cilia 

 tinged with sulphur-green. Thorax, head, base of palpi, and legs sulphur-green ; 

 abdomen greenish-white ; base of antennae, frontal tuft, side of palpi, and forelegs 

 above tinged with red. 



Expanse tV to inj inch. 



Ceylon. 



EARIAS SPEIPLENA (Plate 208, Fig. 6). 



Aphasia speipkna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 770 (1857). 

 Micra partita. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 799 (1865). 



Forewing olivescent- white ; with a longitudinal medial grass-green fascia dilating 

 from the base to the middle of exterior margin : hindwing olivescent-white ; with a 

 slender brownish marginal border. Body, palpi, and legs olivescent-white ; middle 

 of thorax grass-green ; side of palpi, and forelegs above brownish. 



Expanse ttt to tV inch. 



Ceylon. From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's collection. 



EARIAS SULPHURAEIA (Plate 208, Fig. 10). 



Forewing dark sulphur-yellow ; base of costa, and the cilia tinged with brownish- 

 ochreous : hindwing white ; apical border tinged with yellow. Thorax, head, base 

 of palpi, middle and hind femora and tibia above yellow ; palpi, forelegs above, and 

 all the tarsi ochreous-brown ; abdomen, and legs beneath yellowish-white. 



Expanse to inch. 



Ceylon. From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Collection. 



