90 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva purple-brown, with dorsal and lateral rows of white-speckled tubercles, 

 which are tufted with short brown hairs. Pupa reddish-browu, slightly tufted. 



" Feeds on Acanthads, &c." (^Thwaites.) 



ETIPROCTIS BIGUTTA (Plate 112, Fig. 6a, 9). 

 Euproctis higutta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 837 (1855) $ . 

 Male and female. Creamy-white : forewing with a prominent black round spot 

 at end of the cell. Front of the thorax ochreous-white ; antennse and legs above 

 ochreous-white ; anal tuft yellow. 

 Expanse, $ l-j^, 2 2 inches. 



EUPROCTIS LUTESCENS (Plate 113, Fig. 1, $). 

 Euproctis lutescens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 837 (1855), $ . 



Male and female. Pale yellow : forewing with a prominent black quadrate spot 

 at end of the cell. Thorax darker yellow ; abdomen and tuft ochreous-yellow ; palpi 

 ochreous-yellow ; legs pale yellow. 



Expanse, c? l-rsi 2 lA inch. 



EUPROCTIS TINCTIFERA. 

 Euproctis tinctifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 349 (1865), $ . 



"Male. Whitish-testaceous. Wings shining: forewing white along base of 

 the costa and about the apex ; outline of the testaceous part forming two angles ; a 

 black point in the disc and another on the forepart of the exterior border : hindwing 

 white, testaceous at the base and along the interior border ; two black points on the 

 forepart of the exterior border. Head and thorax snow-white. 



" Expanse 12 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. Layard, 

 but which we have not been able to examine. 



Genus CH.^ROTRICHA. 



Chcerotricha, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. iv. pi. 98 (1868-74). 



Male : forewing triangular, slightly elongated ; first subcostal emitted at a short 

 distance before end of the cell, second quadrifid ; discocellular concave, radial from 

 upper end of the cell ; two upper medians from angle at end of the cell, second at a 

 short distance before the end, first or lower at one-third before the end ; submedian 

 recurved : hindwing short, exterior margin convex ; costal vein arched at base ; 

 subcostal slightly touching costal in middle of the cell, two subcostal branches on a 

 footstalk one-half beyond the cell ; discocellular bent near the middle, lower end 

 very oblique ; three upper medians from angles at end of the cell, first or lower at 

 one-third before the end. Body robust, thorax stout, pilose; palpi porrect, laxly 

 squamose, apex conical ; antennae bipectinated ; legs pilose beneath. 



