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cilia, black : liinclwing with the costal border, abdominal margin, extreme exterior 

 margin, and the cilia, black. Front of thorax, head, palpi, hairs on tibia above, 

 and tarsi, ochreous ; thoi-ax behind the collar interspersed with grey hairs ; hind 

 part of thorax and abdomen with a few ochreous-tipt hairs ; palpi above, and legs 

 above, black ; antennae ochreous. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Ceylon. " Punduloya." 



From Mr. E. E. Green's Collection, who also kindly fm-nishes the following 

 note : — " Laiwa ouisciform-cochHpodous, smooth, serai-transparent, greenish-blue. 

 Feeds on the leaves of the coffee-tree. Pupa enclosed in a small round, very tough, 

 greyish-white cocoon, from which the moth ( $ ) emerges by cutting a lid-shaped 

 opening at one end, and flies about immediately." 



Family LASIOCAMPIDiE. 



(Lej). of Ceylon, ii. p. 137.) 



Genus CHILENA. 

 ChiUna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1070 (1855). 

 Male. Forewing rather short, triangular, apex rounded, exterior margin 

 oblique ; posterior angle rounded ; cell narrow, fully half the length ; first subcostal 

 at half before end of cell, second at one-fourth, bifid ; fourth from end of cell, fifth 

 also from end of cell, bifid ; discocellular extremely slender, inwardly-oblique ; 

 third median close to end of cell, second at one-third, first (or lower) at two-thirds : 

 hindwing short, exterior margin very convex ; cell one-fourth the length at upper 

 end ; two short precostal veins, costal vein bent ; subcostal two-branched, first 

 branch near the base and slightly touching the costal at its angle, lower subcostal 

 straight ; discocellular slender, outwardly-oblique, two upper medians on a footstalk 

 beyond end of cell, second close to end, first (or lowest) at half before the end. Body 

 moderately stout, woolly, abdomen extending one-third beyond hindwings ; palpi 

 small, porrect, rather short, pilose, apex very minute ; antennjB broadly bipectinated 

 to the tip, the branches stoutest at their tip ; legs stout, clothed with long woolly 

 hairs ; hind tibijB with minute apical spurs. 



CHILENA SIMILIS (Plate 212, Fig. 5, <J). 

 Chilena similis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1071 (I800). 



Purplish-cinereous. Forewing brownish-ochreous basally, purplish-cinereous 

 externally ; crossed by an inwardly-oblique retracted antemedial dusky-brown fascia, 

 a straio-ht postmedial fascia, and a sinuous pale-bordered submarginal line ; a pure 



