10 THE LEFIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus LEUCOPHLEBIA. 



LeucojMehia, WestwooJ, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 46 (18i7); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 ix. p. 136 (1856); Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 55 (1874). 



Forewing narrow, long, lanceolate ; first subcostal brancli emitted at one-third 

 and second at one-twelftli before end of the cell, fourth at one-third beyond the cell, 

 fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular very obliquely inward, concave at lower end, 

 radial from below the middle ; cell more than half the wing ; middle median at one- 

 sisth and lower at one-twelfth before end of the cell ; submedian straight, emitting a 

 basal lower branch at one-fourth : hindwing rather long and narrow, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin very oblique, convex; cell large, broad, extending more than one- 

 third the wing ; costal vein extending to apex ; subcostal with a short oblique spur 

 one-third fi^om the base ascending to and joined to the costal ; two subcostal 

 branches at a short distance beyond end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, 

 upper end angulated inward, radial from the middle ; the middle median at one- 

 sixth and lower at one-twelfth before end of the cell ; submedian and internal veins 

 straight. Body long, thorax and head short, head small ; palpi thick, broad and flat 

 in front, composed of lax hairy scales, third joint minute ; antennse long, thick, in 

 male serrate-ciliate ; legs thick, femora and tibise laxly hairy beneath. 



LEUCOPHLEBIA ROSACEA (Plate 80, Fig. 3). 

 Leucoplilebia rosacea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 15, pi. 2, fig. 4, ^ . 



Forewing pale pinkish-red, with a broad deep yellow band extending from base 

 of the cell to below apex, and a narrower yellow fascia from below the base of the 

 cell to posterior angle ; median veins also lined with yellow : hindwing ochreous- 

 yellow. Cilia whitish. Thorax creamy-white, slightly suffused with pale pink ; 

 front of head, and palpi, dark purple-red ; abdomen and legs purplish-red ; shaft of 

 antenntB creamy-yellow, serrations ochreous-yellow ; middle and hind legs above 

 yellow. 



Expanse S 2f inches. 



Subfamily AMBULICIN.^. 



Imago with externally rounded palpi ; antennee slender in both sexes ; eyes 

 salient ; thorax rather short ; abdomen of male produced behind, with lateral angular 

 expansions. 



Larva with the anterior segments non-retractile, tapering slightly towards the 

 head, which is abruptly rather larger and rounded ; horn oblique, not curved, but 

 slightly pointed upward at the tip; a series of lateral oblique stripes. {Butler.) 



