104 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



DAPPTJLA TEMPLETONII (Plate 118, Fig. 6, $, 6a, larval case). 



Oiheticus tertius, Templeton, Tranp. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 39, pi. v. f. 1-4 (1846). 

 Oiketicus Templetonii, Westwood, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854, p. 234, pi. 34, fig. 2. 

 Eumeta Templetonii, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 965. 



Male. Wings sparsely covered "with short hair-like adpressed dark grey scales : 

 forewing with a black streak at upper end of the cell and an internapted streak 

 between it and the apex : hindwing concolorous. Body purplish-black, covered with 

 very coarse longish hairs ; abdomen dark brown, with lateral tufts of hair ; antennge 

 brown. 



Expanse 1\ inch. 



Larval case bluntly fusiform, sUky, naked. 



"Larva feeds on Citrus decuma7ia." (Templeton.) 



Genus MANATHA. 

 Manatha, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist 1877, p. 346. 



Wings short, broad, covered with brown scales : forewing trigonate ; costal vein 

 extending to beyond half of wing ; subcostal vein five-branched, first and second 

 branches arising from before end of cell, third and fifth at end of the cell, fourth 

 from below third at half its length and terminating at the apex ; cell broad and cleft 

 at its end ; discocellulars long, upper bent inward at near its middle and emitting 

 from its end a discoidal vein within the cell which extends towards its base and there 

 throws off a lower short branch, lower discocellular very oblique ; one radial starting 

 from angle of upper discocellular ; median vein four-branched, two lower branches 

 from before end of the cell, the upper branch short and arising from the third beyond 

 end of the cell ; submedian vein bent upward near base of the cell, sending forth a 

 lower branch from half its length, which branch is also bent hindward, and has a 

 second lower parallel-branch or internal-veinlet, to which it is joined at the angle by 

 a short cross branch : hindwing slightly pointed at the apex, exterior margin rounded ; 

 costal and subcostal veins running parallel to below apex and joined together by a 

 short cross oblique branch before end of the cell ; cell broad, short at its upper and 

 long at its lower end ; upper discocellular bent outward at its middle, from the angle 

 of which starts the radial ; lower discocellular long and parallel to end of the 

 median; median vein four- branched, disposed as in forewing; a straight submedian 

 and two internal veins. Thorax rather broad, clothed with closely adpressed hairs. 

 Abdomen attenuated, extending beyond hindwing. Antennae short, bipectinated. 

 Tibiae clothed with long hair, tarsi nearly naked. 



Type, Manatha albipes. 



