32 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



"whitisli subdorsal liue ending in a yellow streak at base of born; head and spiracles 

 blue. Pupa pale violet brown. 



" Feeds on Gardenia." {Tlnoaites.) 



Family AGARISTIDiE. 



Forewing long; bindwing ratber broad. Antennae long, slender, thickened 

 towards the tip. Flight diurnal. 



Larva elongate, somewhat' antenuating anteriorly ; head small; slightly pilose. 

 Pupa in a slight cocoon beneath surface of the earth. 



Genus ^GOCERA. 



^gocera Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. p. 211 (1809) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 55; 

 Boisd. Monogr. Agar. p. 24. 



Wings small : forewing elongated ; costal and subcostal veins wide apart ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-third and second at one-sixth before end of the cell, second 

 trifid ; fifth from end of the cell and touching third near its base, sixth from below 

 the fifth at a short distance beyond the cell ; discocellular angulated outward below 

 the middle, upper end concave, radial from the angle ; two upper medians from 

 angles at end of the cell, lower at one-sixth before the end ; submedian recurved 

 from the base : hindwing rather broad ; costal and subcostal joined together to 

 one-fourth from their base ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 deeply concave, radial from the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at one-eighth before the end; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately long, slender, tu d at the apex ; head small, pilose in front ; palpi 

 slightly ascending-, first and second joints thickly pilose beneath, third joint long, 

 cylindrical, compactly scaled ; antennae long, thickened towards the tip ; femora and 

 tibiae moderately pilose beneath. 



iEGOCERA VENULIA (Plate 94, Fig. 1). 



Phaltena Venulia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 107, pi. 165, f. D (1779). 



Bombyx Venulia, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. p. 158. 



uSSgocera Venulia, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. p. 211 ; Crochard, edit. Regn. Anim. Ins. pi. 148, 



f. 1 ; Boisduval, Monogr. Zyg. p. 13, pi. 1, f. 3 ; Monogr. Agar. p. 25 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. 



Het. B. M. i. p. 55. 



Forewing brown, densely speckled with grey scales ; traversed by a longitudinal 

 yellowish-white angulated band, which is indented at the ujDper end of the cell, and 

 terminates before reaching the exterior margin, the band is also bordered outwardly 

 by a red streak, and encloses a black spot below the cell ; a red line along exterior 



