82 KOCTTJIDiE. 



dorsallj' suffused with greyish fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey 

 more or less completely suffused with rufous and olive-bi'own, the 

 anteracdial area less suffused ; an indistinct blackish suhbasal line 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, the lines widely 

 separated, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; orbicular a 

 white point ; reniform with white annulus, narrow, the upper ex- 

 tremity produced and acute, often with a black streak between it and 

 orbicular; medial line arising at upper extremity of reniform, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique and double ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, filled in with white at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, angled outAvards at vein 5, 

 then oblique and with some white points on it, another line beyond 

 it, excurved to vein 5, then oblique and produced to black and 

 white streaks on the veins ; a quadrate red-brown patch, with some 

 white points on costa, on costal area before the subterminal line, 

 which is whitish defined on inner side by an oblique black striga 

 at middle, oblique to vein 7, then somewhat dentate, angled inwards 

 at discal and submedian folds and outwards at vein 4 ; a series of 

 black points just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, some 

 whitish in the interspaces towards base; some black and whitish 

 striae on veins 2 and 1 towards termen and traces of a whitish line 

 from vein 3 to tornus ; cilia red-brown, whitish at base ; the 

 underside whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated with black, a 

 black discoidal spot, waved medial line, double creuulate postmedial 

 and subterminal lines, and terminal series of black points. 



Hah. Ceylon {Templeton, Lewis), 4 cT? 6 5> type, and tj^pes 

 repleta and imjyleta. Exp. 33-40 millim. 



Larva. Green ; head paler ; warts with a few fine short hairs ; 

 spiracles brown ; subdorsal and lateral lines slender, pale yellow. 



6295. Phlegetonia delatrix. 



Fenicillaria delatrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 304 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. 



ii. p. 391. 

 Penicillaria palliairix, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 305 (J852). 

 Tarqalla infida, Wlk. xiii. 1008 (1857); Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. p. (i3, 



pi. 151. ff. 6, 6 a. 

 Penicillaria ludatrix, Wlk. xv. 1773 (1858). 

 Eutelia opposita, Wlk. Journ. Linu. Soc, Zool. Tii. p. 67 (1864). 

 Eutelia suhocellata, Wlk. Journ. Linu. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 67 (18G4). 

 Eutelia plusioides, Wlk. xxxiii. 822 (1865). 

 Eurhipia ipratexta, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi 111. f. 24 (1874). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown with a few blackish scales 

 especially in the thoracic crests ; palpi whitish in front ; frous 

 ■whitish ; pectus whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffused with brown, the basal half rather 

 darker ; subbasal line represented by traces of a curved striga from 

 costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, the lines widely separated, 

 waved, orbicular represented by a white point ; reniform with 

 hlack-brown centre and white annulus, very narrow, constricted at 



