52 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva cylindrical ; head large ; very sparsely liairy ; dark purple-brown ; second 

 and tliird. segments pale red; a transverse narrow yellow band on fourtli to last 

 segment. Pupa dusky red. 



Genus DAMALIS. 

 Daraalis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Sohmett. p. 172 (1818-25); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 453. 



Wings broader than in Hypsa. Body stouter; palpi more slender, and longer; 

 antennae less pectinated. 



DAMALIS ALCIPHEOW (Plate 102, Fig. l,la,b). 



Phal. Aft. Alciphron, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 133, f. E (1777). 



Hypsa Alciphro7i, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 292, pi. 13, fig. 6, 6a. 



Noctua Caricce, Fabrioius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 27 (1793) ; Donovan, Ins. N. Holl. pi. 39, f. 2. 



Hypocrita v. Caricce, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Scbmett. i. pi. 191, fig. 1-4 (1806). 



Damalis Caricoe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 172. 



Hypsa (Damalis) Caricce, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 454. 



Forewing ockreous greyish-brown ; veins dclireous-wliite ; base of wing ochreous- 

 yellow, and marked by five small black spots, two being on the costa and three below 

 them ; an ochreous-white spot at lower end of the cell : hindwing ochreous-yellow, 

 with a black spot at end of the cell, two discal spots beyond, and a more or less 

 perfect outer discal sei"ies decreasing to anal angle. Body ochreous-yellow; a black 

 spot on tegulge, and a slight spot at juncture with base of the wing ; a more or less 

 dorsal and lateral row of spots on abdomen; tip of first and second joints and entire 

 third joint of palpi black; legs with black bands. 



Expanse 2 to 2\ inches. 



Larva cylindrical ; each segment with a few very slender scattered hairs. Black 

 above, brownish beneath ; two longitudinal white dorsal bands, a small ocellus on 

 each segment, and lateral black spots ; head red ; front legs black, middle and hind 

 legs reddish-brown. Pupa dark reddish-brown. 



" Feeds on Ficus oppositifolia." (Thwaites.) 



DAMALIS PRODUCTA (Plate lOl, Fig. 1, la, $ ?, larva). 

 Hypsa producta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 320. 

 Lai*ger and with longer forewings, and antennge more distinctly bipectinated 

 than B. Alciphron : forewing greyish-ochreous ; veins creamy- white ; basal yellow 

 area larger and with six black spbts, three on the costa and three below ; discoidal 

 spot larger but less prominent : hindwing with the spots larger, the outer series 

 cotnplete and regular ; spots on abdomen also regular. 

 Expanse If to 2f inches. 



