80 THE LEPIDOFTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva brown, covered with, short brown hairs, those from anterior and anal 

 segment long ; male with a pale subdorsal line and lower spots, some white spots 

 along the back and below the pale line ; female with blackish dorsal spots and a 

 white lateral spot on the tenth segment ; legs reddish. Pupa purplish-brown, 

 slightly tufted with short hairs. 



" Larva almost omnivorous." (Thwaites.) 



Genus ANTIPHA. 



Lacida* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 801 (1855). 

 Antiplia, Walker, id. p. 806 (1855). 



Male : forewing short, narrowly triangular ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth 

 before end of the cell, second quadrifid, fifth from below third at one-third from its 

 base ; discocellular concave, radial from end of the cell in a line with the subcostal ; 

 three upper median branches from angles at end of the cell, first or lower at one-third 

 before the end ; submedian extending close to the posterior margin : hindwing 

 triangular, exterior margin convex ; costal vein recurved, extending to apex ; 

 subcostal curved upward and touching costal near its base, two subcostal branches 

 on a footstalk one-third beyond the cell; discocellular bent inward, lower end long 

 and oblique ; upper median from angle above end of the cell, two middle medians on 

 a footstalk one-third beyond end of the cell, first or lower at one-third before end of 

 the cell ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body slender ; thorax pilose, tegulse 

 with spatular hairs ; palpi long, projecting beyond the head, second joint pilose 

 beneath, third joint slender ; antennae broadly bipectinated ; legs roughly squamose, 

 hind tibige with four spurs. Female : wing somewhat longer ; abdomen stout ; 

 antenna finely pectinated. 



Type, A. antica. 



ANTIPHA ANTICA (Plate 110, Fig. 3, $). 



Lacida antica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 802 (1855), $. 

 Anaxila notata, Walker, id. iv. p. 919 (1855), ?. 



Male : pale brown : forewing with the basal and discal area speckled with dark 

 brown ; a subbasal transverse waved dark brown line and an oblique upper discal 

 broad fascia, the latter bordered externally by an indistinct brown zigzag line; a 

 dark brown circular mark at end of the cell ; a submarginal series of black dentate 

 spots. Female paler ; forewing less brown speckled, the oblique discal brown fascia 

 broader and more distinct, the mark at end of the cell more distinct and tripartite, 

 the submarginal dentate spots less distinct. Thorax, head and palpi, and legs above 

 speckled with dark brown. 



Expanse, ^ If, ? If inch. 



* Lacides has previously been used for a genus of moths by Walker (see Lep. of Ceylon, ii. p. 53). 



