170 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS PHYLLODES. 



Ischyja, pt. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 205 (1822?). 

 Phyllodes, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Le'pid. p. 246 (1832); 



Guene'e, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 120 (1852); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1232 (1857); 



Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 557 (1894). 



This genus has simple antennae, short palpi, with the second 

 joint compressed, and the third joint small, and a long smooth 

 rather tapering abdomen. The legs are long, slender, and 

 naked, with the tibiae strongly spined. The fore-wings are 

 long, moderately broad, and pointed at the tips, before which 

 the costa is strongly arched ; they are brown, with leaf-like 

 markings. The hind-wings are oval, and strongly rounded, 

 and are black, or blue-black, with a large round white or rose- 

 coloured spot towards the anal angle, or else are bordered or 

 banded with yellow. 



The species are not numerous, but are met with in India, 

 Burma, Ceylon, Java, Amboina, New Guinea, &c. The larva 

 has sixteen legs, but is a half-looper; it has no protuberances, 

 and the pupa is beautifully marked with bronze. 



PHYLLODES MALIGERA. 

 (Plate CXL2V.) 



Phyllodes maltgera, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. xx. p. 138 

 (1883); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 137, pi. 163, figs. 

 2, 2 a (1885). 



This fine Moth is a native of Ceylon, and expands upwards 

 of five inches. The fore-wings, which have the costa much 

 arched, and the tip strongly falcate, are of a purplish-grey, as is 

 also the head and thorax. The orbicular stigma is very small, 



