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Genus SEPHISA. 



Eterusia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1840, p. 445; Westw. Arcana Ent. p. 19; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B, M. iL p. 427. 

 Seto'ztsza,* Boisd. ; Doubleday ; Butler. 



Forewing long, narrow ; costa much arched, exterior margin very oblique ; cell ex- 

 tending three-fourths the wing ; first subcostal emitted at two-eighths and second at 

 one-eighth before end of the cell, third quadrifid, the fourth being thrown off at one- 

 third before its end, the fifth at two-fifths before its end, and the sixth (or radial) at 

 one-fifth from its base beyond end of the cell ; discocellular bent acutely inward in its 

 middle, emitting a discoidal veinlet within the cell; two upper medians on a foot- 

 stalk one-fourth beyond end of the cell, second at one-tenth, and first (or lower) at 

 one-fourth ; two submedians, tipper much arched : hindwing somewhat long, abdo- 

 minal margin short; costal vein extending to apex; subcostal very slender, joined to 

 costal by a short minute spur at one-fifth before end of the cell, two branches emitted 

 from contiguous angles at end of the cell ; discocellular short, bent inward, emitting 

 a discoidal veinlet within the cell ; two upper medians from angles at end of the cell, 

 second at nearly one-fourth and first (or lower) at two-fifths before the end ; two 

 straight submedians and a much curved internal vein. Body narrow, male slightly 

 tufted and female with exserted ovipositor ; head conical in front ; palpi very minute; 

 legs long, slender, smooth ; antennae very long, bipectinated, the pectinations of equal 

 length to the tip in male, in female short to near the tip, where they widen. 



SEPHISA CINGALA (Plate 96, Fig. 1,(?). 



Eterusia cingala, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 343. 



Male and female : forewing dark sap green, with a broad basal whitish blue- 

 bordered band, crossed by a blackish-green streak ; a discal zigzag series of yellowish 

 spots, and a larger spot at end of the cell : hindwing with the base and a broad outer 

 band black, the veins and marginal border steel-blue; a series of yellowish spots 

 before the apex, which are indistinct in the male ; middle band pale yellow. Thorax 

 and base of abdomen in male steel-blue, lower part of abdomen yellow, tip black ; 

 antennae black, shaft steel-blue. Underside as above, veins blue lined. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? 2-| inches. 



Larva short, thick, anterior segments broadest, head small ; ochreous-brown, the 

 segments with six or seven rows of black tipped tubercles, from which spring two or 

 three short black hairs. Pupa pale ochreous-yellow beneath, pinkish and spotted 

 above, in a narrow dense pale ochreous cocoon. 



" Feeds on Lagerstrgemia, &c." (Tlnvaites.) 

 " In jungle. Low country." {Hutchison.) 



* Previously used by Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Scbmett. pt. 3. p. 18 (1825). 

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