50 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus CLEOSIRIS. 



Tetragoniis* Hiibner-Geyer, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. pt. iv. p. 17, f. 653 (1832). 

 Cleosiris, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 23, f. 3 (1836). 



"Wings shoi't, very broad, quadrangular in outline : forewing acutely angular at 

 the apex ; costal vein extending two-tMrds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at two- 

 thirds before end of the cell, second and third emitted close together near end of the 

 cell, third bifid, the fourth being thrown off from below at one-sixth from its base, 

 fifth from end of the cell : discocellular slender, bent outward at one-third from its 

 upper end, radial from the angle ; cell broad, extending nearly one-half the wing ; 

 two upper median branches from angles above end of the cell, second from angle 

 close to the end, first (or lower) at one-half before the end; submedian slightly 

 recurved : hindwing produced to angle in middle of exterior margin ; costal vein 

 curved downward from the base and then arched to the apex ; two subcostal branches 

 emitted at one-tenth from the base, the first touching the costal ; cell open ; lower 

 or first median branch emitted at twice the length from beyond opposite the subcostal 

 branches, second and third at thrice the length, the radial (or upper median) starting 

 from midway between the lower and second branches ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body slender, short; palpi ]3orrect, first and second joint thick, laxly 

 squamose, second joint extending half length beyond the head, third joint long, of the 

 same length as the second, cylindrical, slender, naked; antennse slender, setose; legs 

 short, rather thick, tibiee thickened. 



CLEOSIRIS CATAMITA (Plate 99, Fig. 4, 4a). 



Tet7-agonus Catamitiis, Hiibner-Geyer, Zutrage Exot. Schmett. pt. iv. p. 17, fig. 653-4 (1832). 

 Cleosiris Catamita, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 23, fig. 3 ; Doubleday and Westw. Gen. D. Lep. 

 pi. 77, f. 9. 



Brownish-ferruginous : forewing with an indistinct yellowish-ferruginous waved 

 subapical fascia : hindwing uniformly coloured. Underside ferruginous-yellow, 

 numerously covered with slender red confluent strigse, which, across the wings, 

 form a slight fascia from apex of forewing to middle of abdominal margin of hind- 

 wing, and a less defined similar outer fascia ; three small ferruginous-brown ocellated 

 spots within each cell, the spots white centred. 



Expanse, (? ? If to 1| inch. 



Family LITHOSIIDiE. 



Wings generally very long and narrow. , Antenngemore or less finely pectinated. 

 Larva elongated, head large; haiiy; pupa in a slight, hairy, silken web, 



* Tetragona and Tetragonum previously used. 



