50 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
expanded in a lobe-like manner, brownish yellow. Antenne short, 
about two-thirds the length of the fore wing, 13-jointed, blackish 
gray, the two basal joints and the third and fourth joints reddish 
brown, the pubescence gray, oblique and moderately close ; in the 
male compact, fairly erect and longer. Eyes closely and extra- 
ordinarily shortly pubescent, standing off somewhat laterally, in 
the male rather more so; temples displaced by the eyes. Inner 
lobe of the maxilla (fig. 100) strongly expanded at the end with 
strongly flattened and blunted teeth. Maxillary palp (fig. 94) 
blackish brown, apex of the terminal joint brownish yellow ; third 
and especially the second joint with slender scales between the hairs, 
particularly at the outer side (fig. 97) ; the palpal organ of the second 
joint which is here developed as a sense-hair (fig. 97 sh) is shorter 
than half the length of the joint. 
Mesothorax black above, covered with glistening straw-coloured 
scales. Parapsidal furrows very indistinct. Abdomen pale brown- 
ish, rather closely beset with silvery gray hairs; without scales. 
Legs brownish yellow, the brown colour as follows :—Anterior 
border of the coxe, a broad diffused ring in the middle and the apex 
of the upper side of the femora, the tibize with exception of the base, 
the apex, and a ring before the centre, in the anterior and mid-tibie 
a small spot upon the upper side of the extreme base; the base 
of the first tarsal joints, as well as the second and third tarsal 
joints. The anterior femora are more strongly expanded than the 
rest. 
Claws (fig. 68) large, slender; between the two powerful teeth 
before the apex, a smaller; between the inner angle and the first 
tooth a series of 9-10 acute, backwardly curved, very fine denticles. 
Length of hind tibia 14 mm. ; on the inner side six spurs, and in 
addition on the inner side at the end four spurs, on the outer side 
two spurs, all spurs without ctenidiobothria. The length of the 
first, second, and third joints of the posterior tarsi is 1°16 mm., 
0:13 mm., and 0°15 mm. respectively, 7.e., in the approximate ratio 
8}: 4:1. The first posterior tarsal joint with 43 short and small 
ctenidiobothria. Femora and tibize beset throughout their whole 
length with narrow, truncate scales which are silvery on the clear 
areas, brown on the brown tract. 
Fore wings dull straw colour to grayish white, marbled with 
labyrinthine design (fig. 1). Front margin with 8-9 strongly 
marked dark brown spots interrupted by clear spots. Veins brown. 
Hind wings with exception of the centre rather closely scaled 
whitish gray to pale brownish, hind border densely pubescent. 
Membrane of the hind wing brightly iridescent green to red. 
