12 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



the margin oblique and nearly even. Hindwiags short, broadly obovate; exterior 

 margin more or less scalloped. 



Larva. — Slender. Head armed with two long branched-spines ; body armed 

 with two dorsal and two lateral rows of short branched-spines. 



Pltpa. — Slender. Wing-cases somewhat dilated and angular; anterior segments 

 and thorax dorsally angular ; head piece with two small points in front. 



Ei;g. — " Radiate, small, hard, nearly as high as wide, with radiating lines of 

 erectile bristles" (Doherty). 



Genus BYBLIA. 



B/jhlia, HuVnier, Veiz. bek. Schmett. p. 28 (ISIG). Moore, Lcp. of Ceylon, i. p. 45 (1881). de 



Niccville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 1:5 (1S8G). 

 i/jZ/'an/s, Boisduval, Ann. Mas. Hist. Nat. 1833, p. 203; Faun. Midagasear, Lep. p. 55 (1833). 



Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 410 (1851). Trimen, Rliop. Afr. Austr. p. 212 (1866). 



Imaco. — "Wings short. Male. Foreiving elongately-triangular ; costa arched 

 at the base, apex obtuse ; exterior margin oblique, slightly convex, waved ; posterior 

 margin short ; costal vein swollen at the base ; first subcostal branch short, emitted 

 near to end of the cell, second immediately above end of the cell, third from two- 

 fifths bej^ond the end, fourth at two-thirds from the end; cell short; upper 

 discocellular extremely short, middle discocellular rather short, concave, lower 

 discocellular long, waved, slender; radials from the angles; upper median branch 

 from end of the cell, middle branch immediately before the end, lower from opposite 

 first subcostal. Hindtring obtusely conical; costal margin long; exterior margin 

 very oblique, convex, scalloped ; cell triangular ; discocellulars of equal length, upper 

 very obliquely concave, lower extremely slender and obliquely concave; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell. Body slender ; palpi porrect, pilose beneath, second 

 joint projecting much beyond the head, third joint long and cylindrical, scaly ; 

 forelegs very short, of male slender and delicate, very slightly and finely hairy; of 

 fi^male half longer than in male, slender, destitute of hairs, scaly, tarsus thickened 

 at apex, with three paii's of short spines ; antennge slender, with a well-formed flat 

 club ; eyes naked. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, slender; segments armed with two dorsal longitudinal 

 rows of twelve rather long branched-spines, and lateral rows of shorter similar 

 spines ; head armed with a longer pair of erect branched-spines. 



Pupa. — Suspended. Elongated. Head piece obtusely cleft in front ; thoi-ax 

 dorsally oblique in front, and raised to a point behind ; waist concave ; basal 

 segments dorsally raised ; wing-cases somewhat dilated laterally. 



Type.— B. Ilithyia. 



