72 TEE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



radial and two upper medians from contiguous angles at end of the cell, lower median 

 at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 stout ; palpi porrect, clothed with adpressed scales, apex pointed ; legs smooth, hind 

 tibife thick, femora slightly pilose beneath ; antennaj nainutely serrated in male, 



PANGOEA EROS A (Plate 107, Fig. 1, Ia,cJ ?, J, larva). 

 Aloa erosa, "Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 708 (1855). 



Forewing ochreous-brown, with a basal irregular bordered zigzag pale pinkish 

 band, and two or three similar coloured marginal spots, the upper one of which is 

 disposed at the apes : hindwing scarlet, with a broad irregular bordered brown 

 submarginal band, and in the female a slight streak at end of the cell. Thorax pale 

 pink ; two brown spots on the collar, one on each tegula, and a large scutellate spot 

 above ; collar, pectus, and palpi red streaked ; abdomen scarlet, with dorsal and 

 lateral black spots ; legs brown, femora red streaked above. 



Expanse, (? 2, ? 2J inches. 



Larva dai"k brown, clothed with dense tufts of blackish hairs, Pupa dark brown, 

 within a dense hairy cocoon. 



" Feeds on Gloriosa superba, &c." {Thivaites.) 



" Taken at Kegalle. In low country forest in June. Larvse reared op. Thunbergia." 

 (Hutchison.) 



Genus RAJENDRA. 

 Rajendra, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 43 (1879); P. Z. S. 1879, p. 396. 

 Forewing elongated, narrow, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle very 

 convex ; first subcostal emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second quadrifid ; 

 discocellular bent inward in the middle, radial from upper end ; two upper median 

 branches from acute angle at end of the cell, second from close to the end, and first 

 (or lower) at one-third before the end ; submedian curved downward : hindwing 

 short, exterior margin very convex; costal and subcostal joined together to half 

 length of the cell ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 concave, radial and upper median from acute angle at end of the cell, middle median 

 from close to the end, lower at beyond one-third ; one median and an internal vein. 

 Body stout ; palpi porrect, laxly squamose beneath ; legs short, stoutish ; antennge 

 very minutely pectinated. [B. lativitta.) 



RAJENDRA IRREGULARIS (Plate 107, Fig, 2). 

 Forewing blackish-brown ; with a longitudinal irregular bordered creamy-white 

 band curving from the base to apex, the lower border of the band being slightly 

 excavated near the base, and the upper border indented at end of the cell : hindwing 



