70 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Family ARCTIIDiE. 



Forewing elongated, narrow. Body very robust, thorax woolly; antennae 

 bipectinated. 



Larva densely tufted with long hairs. Pupa in a large hairy sUken cocoon. 



Genus ALOPE. 



Alope, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 619 (1855). 

 Forewing elongated ; cell extending two-thirds its length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-eighth before end of the cell, second quadrifid; discocellular deeply 

 concave, radial from slight angle close to subcostal ; three upper medians from 

 contiguous angles at end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian 

 slightly curved : hind wing short, broad ; cell extending nearly two-thirds the wing ; 

 costal and subcostal joined together from near base to half length of the cell ; two 

 subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discoceUular slender, bent inward in the 

 middle, apparently emitting a slender veinlet within the cell from the angle, radial 

 from near lower end ; two upper medians from angles at end of the cell, lower at 

 two-fifths before the end ; two submedians and an internal vein, upper submedian 

 slender. Body robust ; thorax and head densely clothed with short hairs ; palpi 

 porrect, pilose, second joint extending beyond the vertex, third joint short, thick; 

 antenna stoutly bipectinated in male ; legs thick, pilose beneath. 



ALOPE SICINI (Plate 106, Fig. 2, 2a, (J ? , c, larva). 



Bombyx Eicini, Fabricius, Syst. Eat. p. 583 (1775); Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 473 (1793). 

 Alope ocellifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 620 (1855). 



Forewing greyish-brown, with six transverse macular bands composed of 

 irregular shaped pale ochreous-bordered dark brown spots, and a marginal row of 

 similar spots: hind wing red, palest in the male; with three dark brown spots on 

 the costal border, one at end of the cell, one below the apex, and two towards the 

 anal angle, and a broken streak on upper part of exterior margin. In the female these 

 spots on the hindwing are replaced by three more or less complete irregular shaped 

 bands across the wing, and in some males they also form similar bands. Thorax, 

 head, palpi, and legs greyish-brown ; thorax similarly spotted ; palpi and legs with 

 pale bands ; abdomen red, with dorsal and lateral bands. 



Expanse 1^ to 2\ inches. 



Larva dark brown, white speckled; with dorsal and lateral tufts of fine hairs. 

 Pupa dark brown, within an oval, hairy, silken cocoon. 



" Feeds on Notonia and Fagraea." (TJnvaites.) 



" Puselawe. In gardens. Reared from larvae found feeding on Dahlia." 

 (Hutchison.) 



