188 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



discocellulars outwardly-oblique, upper discocellular short, extending outward in a 

 nearly straight line with base of the subcostal, twice contiguously bent at its outer 

 t-nd, the lower discocellular long and deeply concave ; the radials from angles of upper 

 discocellular ; median veinlets equidistant apart, the upper angled at end of the cell ; 

 submedian vein recurved from its base. Hindwing broad, triangular ; costa slightly 

 arched, apex and exterior margin convex, the exterior margin broadly, somewhat 

 subangulate in the middle ; abdominal margin long ; anal angle obtuse ; cell narrow, 

 entirely open ; lower half of the cell and the longitudinal fold below the median from 

 the base clothed with fine hairs ; with a conspicuous large obconical rclcetu-Jilack 

 ghindularixitvh on the upperside, situated across the base of the upper median vein- 

 lets, the patch being clothed with densely-packed raised lengthened broad scales of 

 equal width and with obtuse or slightly obtusely-dentate tip ; no androconia; also a 

 small glandular pouch close to the base of the short internal vein, between it and the 

 edge of abdominal margin, the pouch being covered with glossy smooth scales and 

 enclosing an oppressed tuft of short stout rigid hairs. Body robust, woolly; abdomen 

 brncath with a smaW. glandular jjatch onaxij raised ochreons scales on each side of 

 the keel near the base ; head rather small, front woolly ; palpi compressed, almost 

 erect, extending above the vertex, compactly clothed beneath and hairy above, 

 terminal joint short ; antenna long, with a lengthened slender club ; eyes large, 

 prominent, naked ; forelegs of male small, very hairy. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Long, cylindrical, anal segment furnished with two short 

 divergent processes ; head small ; clothed with dorsal and lateral rows of fine short 

 radiating hairs arising from tubercles. 



Food Plant. — Feeds on the young leaves of the CocoanutPalm (Cocos nucifera). 



Cheysalis. — Boat-shaped, broad across the middle ; head-piece prolonged and 

 acuminated into a bifid point. 



Type.— D. Celinde. 



DISCOPHORA CONTINENTALIS (Plate 150, figs. 1, la, b, c, cJ ? , larva and pupa). 



Discojjhora Celinde, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 76, pi. 5, figs. 10, ll,c? ? (1882). Marshall and de 



Niccvillo, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 295, fig. S ? (1«83).— «ec StoU. 

 Discophora contineiitalig'eX andamanensie, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 190 (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent purplish-brown, with deep indigo- 

 blue reflections in certain lights. Cilia ochreous, Forewing with a small pale 

 ochreous longitudinally-oval spot beneath the lower subcostal, and a series of three 

 more or less defined smaller lower decreasing lunate spots, followed by a submarginal 

 series of four (sometimes five) smaller spots, which latter vary in size and are more 

 or less lunate or pointed. Ilindicing with a prominent obconical pale-bordered 



