4 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



blackisli dorsal line and paler lateral line, segments -with slight narrow brownish 

 bands ; palpi with a broad brown lateral band; tarsi with brown bands. 

 Expanse, c? 3, ? 4|- inches. 



DILTJDIA OBIiaUA (Plate 74, Fig. 2). 



Macrosila ohliqua, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 208 (1856). 

 Diludia obliqua, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 614. 



Forewing brownish-grey ; crossed by a subbasal, three irregular antemedial, 

 three postmedial, and a discal sinuous brown whitish-bordered slender band, the 

 medial upper area also brown and traversed by an oblique dai'ker brown fascia which 

 extends from middle of the costa to exterior margin and spreads hind ward towards 

 posterior angle, and has a contiguous patch on the margin in front ; a dark brown 

 zigzag streak extending below the apex : hindwing brown, with two indistinctly 

 darker brown transverse sinuous fasciae extending from anal aiiQ:le ; abdominal 

 border and angle greyish. Body brownish-grey ; collar and tegulge brown streaked 

 and hind part of thorax blackish streaked ; abdomen brown speckled, with indistinct 

 darker dorsal and lateral lines ; palpi with brown lateral streak ; tarsi with brown 

 bands. 



Expanse 5J inches. 



Genus PROTOPARCE. 



Protoparce, Burtneister, Abhandl. Nat. Gesellsch. Halle, p. 63 (1855). 

 Phlegethontius et Agrius (part), Hiibner. 



Forewing long, narrow ; costa arched near the end, apex pointed ; exterior 

 margin slightly uneven, very oblique and slightly convex ; posterior margin much 

 recurved ; first subcostal vein emitted at one-third and second at one-ninth before 

 end of the cell, fourth at one-third beyond the cell from below the third, fifth 

 immediately beyond end of the cell ; discocellular inwardly oblique, slightly bent near 

 lower end, radial from the angle ; cell long, narrow ; middle median at one-fifth, and 

 lower at three-fifths before end of the cell ; submedian recurved, emitting a lower 

 branch inward about one-third from its base : hindwing narrow ; apex somewhat 

 pointed ; exterior margin very oblique, slightly waved and angulated near the anal 

 angle ; cell narrow, extending about one-third the wing ; costal vein slightly arched 

 in the middle ; a short oblique subcostal spur at one-third from its base joined to the 

 costal ; two subcostal branches from immediately beyond end of the cell ; discocellular 

 outwardly oblique, twice bent, upper angled inward in the middle, radial from lower 

 angle ; middle median at one-fifth and lower at one-third before end of the cell ; 

 submedian straight, internal recurved. Body long, fusiform ; head moderate; paljai 

 bluntly pointed in front ; antennae long, thick ; tarsi long, slightly spined (P. Con- 

 volvuli). 



