Mr. F. Moore on Ceylon Lepidojptera. 347 



ManatJia albipes. 



Male. Wings brown ; body fuliginous brown. Antennas 

 and legs darker brown ; tarsi pure white. 



Exp. ^ inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Habitaculum fusiform, small, silky, slightly covered with 

 pieces of thin bark or lichen, the specimen under examination 

 having the heads of six (or more) young [? parasitic] larvai pro- 

 truding from the upper end — one (the largest) from an extended 

 sac in the middle, the others from separate sac-like openings 

 below and around the upper one ; from the lower end of this 

 same example protrudes the empty pupa-case from which the 

 male insect had escaped. 



Fam. LasiocampidsB. 



Tagora murina. 



Male. Upperside greyish fawn-colour : fore wing crossed 

 by a darker upper broad, subbasal, curved, zigzag-bordered 

 band, several discal narrow lunular lines, and a contiguous 

 straight double outer line ; the outer border of wing broadly 

 greyish and dotted on the veins : hind wing crossed by a veiy 

 indistinct darker discal lunular line and straight outer band. 

 Underside brown, with indistinct lunular discal lines, outer 

 straight narrow band, and submarginal dots. 



Exp. 3 inches. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



Lebeda variegata. 



Male. Upperside dark dull ferruginous brown. Cilia grey : 

 fore wing with a broad basal and discal ochreous band, the 

 former with zigzag border and variegated with brown wavy 

 markings, a large oval upper patch, and a small pure white 

 spot, the discal band with lunular brown inner border and 

 zigzag black-spotted outer border, the interior being traversed 

 by ferruginous lunular lines ; middle of the wing and posterior 

 angle suffused with grey. Thorax and front of head grey. 

 Palpi, pectus, and legs blackish ferruginous. Anal tuft black- 

 ish. Underside darker ferruginous brown 5 both wings with 

 two indistinct dusky oblique bands. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood. 



