542 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Ceylon. 



"Dickoya" {E. E.Green). 



" Larva somewhat resembling that of the European Clllx spinula. With 14 

 legs, anal claspers absent ; length 9 lines. Colour pale salmon-pink ; head pale 

 yellow, with two dark brown transverse bands ; anal segment tapering to a bifid 

 point ; each segment with six small setaceous glandular spines. Dorsal surface of 

 second, third, and fourth segments dull green, of fifth and sixth and of eleventh and 

 twelfth dark olive-brown ; ventral area of second to the sixth and from eleventh to 

 thirteenth dark brown ; lateral area of seventh to tenth yellow ; a lateral series of 

 six dark brown diagonal stripes, each stripe extending through two segments. 

 Feeds upon Cardamomum and allied plants. Spins a loose cocoon in a rolled-up 

 leaf, and changes to a red pupa covered with a white powdery-bloom." — (E. Ernest 

 Green, Oct. 188G.) 



Family LIMACODIDJE. 



(Lep. of Ccylou, ii. p. 125.; 



Genus NAGODA. 



Male. Wings mostly transparent. Forewing elongated, rather narrow, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin very oblique ; cell more than half the length, first sub-costal 

 about one-third before end of cell, second immediately before the end, third from the 

 end, trifid ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, concave ; upper radial from above the 

 middle, lower close to end ; a straight veinlet emitted within the cell from below 

 upper radial; middle median near end of cell, lower at nearly one-third before the 

 end ; lower radial curved upward ; lower median curved downward ; two sub- 

 median veins, upper curved upward, lower straight and with a short lower basal 

 branch : hindwing short, somewhat triangular, apex and anal angle obtuse ; cell 

 two-fifths the length at upper end, half at the lower end; costal vein free; two 

 subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular very deeply concave, radial from angle 

 near lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-third ; two 

 submedians and an internal vein nearly straight. Body stout ; densely clothed 

 with long lax spatular hairs ; palpi short, stout, porrect, very laxly clothed, apex 

 minute ; antennge broadly bipectinated to more than half its length, tip serrated ; 

 legs stout, densely clothed with very long hairs, which almost cover the tarsi. 



Allied to the Australian genus Anaphcea {A. Oxleyi). 



NAGODA NIGRICANS (Plate 211, Fig. 10, S)- 

 Male. Fuliginous-black. Wings mostly semi-transparent. Forewing with the 

 basal area, posterior border, the apex, extreme costal and exterior margin, with the 



