288 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the cell is coated inside with stej^s of silk which are disposed irregularly ; pupa fixed 

 by the tail only ; the larva feeds on bamboo, and is generally found on bamboo-clumps 

 in which there are a lot of dead yellow leaves. The imago is found throughout the 

 district at all times of the year. It is not common anywhere, it basks on bamboo 

 leaves in the sun with its wings half open, when it is easily caught ; it is an insect of 

 very rapid flight. We have bred it at all seasons. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken. ) 



Habitat. — South India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — The types in the Indian Lluseum, Calcutta, came from the Palni 

 Hills ; Hampson records it from the Nilgiris ; Elwes from Trichinopoli ; Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken, who bred it at Karwar, unfortunately did not figure the larva 

 and pupa. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Thoressa Meron, Halpe hieron, de Niceville, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 54, pi. 4, fig. 1. 

 Habitat, Sumatra. 



Genus ONRYZA, 



Onnj2a, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 112, pi. 2, fig. 5 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 

 p. 433. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 268. 



Forewing, vein 12 reaches costa about one-fifth before the end of the cell, cell 



nearly two-thirds the length of the costa, vein 6 from very close to upper end of cell, 



upper discocellular consecpently very minute, middle and lower discocellulars inwardly 



olilique, the lower much the shorter, vein 3 emitted about one-fifth before lower end of 



cell, 2 from a little beyond the middle ; costa somewhat arched at the base, then 



nearly straight to the apex, which is sub-acute, outer margin convex 



below the apex, then nearly straight to the hinder angle, shorter than the 



hinder margin, which slightly curves downwards. Hindwing with, the cell 



very short, much less than half the breadth of the wing, vein 7 from about 



one-third before the upper end of cell, discocellulars slightly outwardly 



oblique, very faint, vein 5 absent, .3 from close to lower end of cell, the 



Onryza. base of Vein 2 about as far from 3 as the base of that vein is from the 



end of the cell ; lower margin of the cell bent upwards from vein 2 to the 



end ; costa and apex evenly rounded, then nearly straight to the anal angle, which 



is also rounded and somewhat produced. Auteunse and palpi as in Ilalpe ; hind 



tibise with two pairs of rather short spurs. The male with a patch of long recumbent 



hairs on the upperside of the hindwing, attached along vein 8 from close to the 



base of the wing. 



Type, Halpe melktila, de Nice'ville. 



