86 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



end of the cell. Abdomen bright yellow, tuft paler. Female uniform pale yellow, 

 without markings. Underside : costal border bright yellow. 

 Expanse, ^ f , ? IJ inch. 



ARTAXA CERVINA (Plate 112, Fig. 3, cJ). 



Artaxa cervina, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 345. 



Male: forewing brownish-ochreous, with two transverse medial pale yellowish 



shghtly wavy lines : hindwing pale brownish fawn colour. Body brownish-ochreous. 



Underside dark brownish fawn colour, outer borders yellowish. Legs brownish above. 



Expanse -| to |- inch. 



Nearest allied to A. varians (Walker), but is a much smaller insect, and of 

 different coloured wing's. 



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ARTAXA PUSILLA (Plate 112, Fig. 4, ^). 

 Euproetis yygmcea* Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, Asiatic See. Bengal, p. 48 (1879). 

 Male. Yellow : forewing with two medial transverse scarcely perceptible paler 

 bands : hindwing pale yellow. Underside : forewing tinged with brownish fawn 

 colour. 



Expanse iV inch. 



Genus SOMENA. 



Somena, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1734 (1856). 

 Orvasca, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 502 (1865). 



Wings comparatively longer than in Artaxa : forewing with two upper medians 

 from angles at end of the cell, second at a short distance before the end, first or 

 lower at one-third before the end ; posterior margin fringed with long spatulate 

 hairy scales : hindwing with two subcostal branches on a footstalk half beyond the 

 cell ; discocellular very oblique ; three median branches, the two upper branches from 

 angle at end of the cell, first or lower at one-fourth before the end. 



Type, 8. scintillans. 



SOMENA SCINTILLANS (Plate 111, Fig. 3, ?, 3a, larva). 

 Somena scintillans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1734 (1856), $. 

 Artaxa scintillans, Butler, Types Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 52, pi. 90, fig. 1 (1880). 



Forewing ochreous-brown, irrorated with dark brown raised scales ; in some 

 specimens an indistinct transverse antemedial and a postmedial narrow waved pale 

 line is apparent ; a yellow spot at the apex ; one on middle of the exterior margin, 

 and another at posterior angle, the brown border of the spots showing a few minute 

 silvery scales ; cilia bordering the spots also yellow : hindwing yellow. Thorax and 



* This name has been previously used for an allied African species of this genus. 



