12 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



cell, and some subbasal grey-bordered black spots : Mndwing yellowisb-ocbreous, 

 deeper coloured at the base ; crossed by two discal sinuous black fascige, and a paler 

 marginal band. Thorax and frontal band reddish-ochreous, tegulse and a lower 

 transverse black band bordered with grey, two subdorsal grey-bordered black spots 

 on third anal segment. 



Expanse 3^ inches. 



Larva olive-green above, bluish laterally, ringed with paler granular spots ; a 

 white spotted subdorsal line and oblique lateral stripes ; a subdorsal purplish 

 triangular mark and lateral similar coloured patches on sixth to last segments, and a 

 longitudinal streak on second and third segment ; horn green, granulated with white. 

 Pupa dark purplish reddish-brown with pale abdominal bands. 



AMBTJLYX TURBATA (Plate 80, Fig. 1). 

 Ambulyx turhaia, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 252. 



Forewing dark purplish reddish-brown, suffused with olivaceous ; crossed by two 

 antemedial and three postmedial sinuous black grey-bordered lines, and a submarginal 

 straight pale reddish line ending below the apex in a greyish streak ; a grey-centred 

 spot at end of the cell, and a subbasal series of more prominent grey-bordered black 

 spots : hindwing paler, yellowish on costal border ; crossed by a medial black straight 

 fascia, two confluent sinuous lines, and a marginal baud, the latter and the cilia grey 

 streaked at anal end. Body dark purplish reddish-brown ; frontal band and tegul^ 

 laterally olive-black and grey -bordered ; two subdorsal similar coloured spots on 

 third anal segment. 



Expanse 4^ inches. 



Genus AMBLYPTERUS. 



Amhhjpterus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 133 (1818-25). 



Ccdymnia* Walker, Catal. Lep. Hat. B, M. viii. p. 123 (1856); BoisJ. Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. p. 13 (1874). 



Forewing very long, narrow ; apex produced, convex ; exterior margin very 

 oblique ; posterior margin much recurved ; cell long, narrow, extending more than 

 half the wing ; first subcostal vein emitted at one-third and second at one-ninth 

 before end of tbe cell, fifth from end of the cell; discocellular very inwardly oblique, 

 bent inward below the middle, radial from the angle ; middle median at one-fifth and 

 lower at two-thirds before end of the cell ; submedian much recurved in the middle, 

 basal lower branch long : hindwing rather long, apex convex, anal angle pointed ; 

 cell short, narrow, extending to one-third the wing; a short subcostal spur joined to 

 the costal, two subcostal branches on a footstalk some distance beyond end of the 

 cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, upper end concave, radial from the middle ; 



* Previously used by Hiibner for a genus of Xoctuidie. 



