22 LLOYDS NATUI^AL THSTORY. 



RAMADASA PAVO. 

 {Plate CXXVIL, Fig. 4.) 



Chasmina pavo, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 147, 

 no. 2 (1856). 



Ra7nadasa pavo, Moore, Proc. Zool Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 603, 

 pi. 59, fig. 8 ; id. Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 44 (1884) ; Hamp- 

 son, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 357, fig. 191 (1894). 



This Moth is a native of Ceylon, and is also found in the 

 Andaman Islands and Northern India. 



"Glaucous, very minutely speckled with brown, luteous 

 beneath. Head black above, with a luteous band. Palpi 

 testaceous, striped above with black. Proboscis tawny. 

 Antennae dull tawny. Thorax with a slight testaceous band in 

 front. Abdomen and hind-wings luteous, the former with 

 black spots along each side beneath. Tibiae and tarsi with 

 black spots and bands. Fore-wings luteous and dotted with 

 black along the basal part of the costa ; apical half of the 

 wings pale flesh-colour, divided from the glaucous part by a 

 ferruginous band, which is bordered with black on its inner 

 side ; the apical half contains some black streaks and dots, 

 which are spangled with emerald green or blue and purple. 

 Length of the body eight lines ; of the wings twenty lines." 

 ( Walker) 



SUB-FAMILY V. APAMEIN^. 



The ApauieiniE are small or moderate-sized moths, generally 

 of dull colours, with somewhat short, ascending^ pilose palpi, 

 and rather distinctly marked fore-wings, the sub-terminal line 

 often forming a distinct W. The body is stout and pilose, and 

 the thorax is often crested, and the abdomen very long. The 

 larvae are stout, smooth, and cylindrical, hiding themselves at 



