55S TIJE LEPIDOPTKBA OF CEYLOK. 



])liiiiie of scales; ocelli two, minute, placed between the antenna and base of the 

 tliorax ; palpi elongate, thickly clothed with scales and long hairs, third joint 

 elongate ; abdomen cylindric, tufted at the apex. 



" Fhght diurnal. 



" Larva subcylindrical, hirsute, tailless ; pale and fleshy, residing beneath the 

 Ijurk, pith, or internal substances of various trees. Pupa elongate, with a row of 

 spines on each segment; changes in the interior of plants." 



Genus MELITTIA. 



Mrlinia, Iliibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 128 (1818-25). 



Forewing narrow, long ; posterior margin recurved ; cell fully two-thirds the 

 length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second and third close 

 to the end, approximate, fourth from end of cell, bifid at half its length beyond the cell; 

 discocellular bent slightly outward at one-third and two-thirds its length, the middle 

 also bent inward and emitting a short veinlet within the cell ; radials from outer 

 angles of the discocellular ; middle median from angle close to end of cell, lower 

 very close to the middle branch; submediau short, slender: hindwing rather long, 

 exterior margin very oblique, anal angle very convex; costal vein extending along 

 edge of the margin, short; subcostal partly confluent with the costal; cell half the 

 length ; two subcostals emitted at one-fourth beyond the cell, the base and upper 

 branch extending close along edge of the costa ; discocellular outwardly oblique, 

 bent in the middle, radial from the angle; middle median one third before end of 

 cell, lower at one-half; a straight snbmedian and two internal veins. Body stout; 

 abdomen oblanceolate, extending three-fourths beyond hindwings ; head rather 

 broad ; labial palpi ascending, second joint reaching level of the vertex, broad in front, 

 pilose, third joint lanceolate, nearly half length of second ; antennas snbclavate, 

 curved at apex, with short fine ciliaj in front to near the end, the cili» arranged in 

 tufts, ihe tip also with a short tuft; legs stout ; fore and middle legs laxly sijuamons, 

 base of middle tarsi pilose ; hind legs and tarsi densely pdose, outer sjiurs very 

 loner. 



Tijpc, ]\]. bombyliformis. 



MELITTIA PHORCUS. 



Melittia rhorciis, Westwood, Cabinet of Oi'icnt. Ent. p. 62, pi. 30 Fig. 7 (] 847-8). 



Purplish black : forewing with a hyaline streak extending below the cell, two 

 similar streaks within the cell, and an oval hyaline vein-lined spot beyond the cell ; 

 the discoidal and apical area speckled with a few ochreous-red and white scales ; 

 base of posterior margin also covered with ochreous-red scales : hindwing hyaline, 



