Mr. F. Moore on Ceylon Lepidoptera. 347 



Manatha alhipes. 



Male. Wings brown ; boclj fuliginous brown. Antennae 

 and legs darker brown ; tarsi pure white. 



Exp. Y2 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] larvae 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. LasiocampidaB. 



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 very 

 indistinct darker discal lunular line and straight outer band. 

 Underside brown, with indistinct lunular discal lines, outer 

 straight nan-ow band, and submarginal dots. 



Exp. 3 inches. 



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



Lebeda variegata. 



Male. Upperside dark dull fen-uginous 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 wliite 

 spot, the discal band with lunular brown inner border and 

 zigzag black-spotted outer border, the interior being ti'aversed 

 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 feiTUginous brown ; both wings with 

 two indistinct dusky oblirpic bands. 



Exp. 2| inches. 



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



