108 THE LEPIDOFTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus HARPYIA. 



Cerura (part), Schvank, Fauna Boica ii. 2, p. 155 (1802). 

 Harpyia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 19 (1810). 

 Harpyias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 148 (1818-25). 



Forewing elongated, narrow, apex rounded, exterior margin obliquely convex ; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-sixtli before end of the cell, second from the end, 

 quadrifid ; cell extending nearly two-thirds the Aving ; discocellular inwardly oblique, 

 slightly bent close to subcostal in the middle, upper radial from the upper angle, 

 sometimes joined or looped to base of second subcostal, and lower radial from the 

 middle angle ; a slender forked discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell from middle 

 of the discocellular ; three median branches, middle branch from close to end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian curved downward : hindwing 

 small, exterior margin obliquely convex ; costal vein extending to apex; subcostal 

 arched in the middle, two subcostal branches on a long footstalk four-fifths beyond 

 the cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, radial from the middle ; cell broad, extending 

 to half the wing, a slender forked veinlet emitted within the cell ; two upper medians 

 from angle at end of the cell, lower at one-fifth before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein slightly curved. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs very laxly pilose, 

 abdomen less pilose ; palpi small ; antennse bipectinated to tip, the branches ciliated 

 in male. 



Type, H. furcula. 



HARPYIA KANDYIA (Plate 120, Fig. 1, ?, la, larva). 



Forewing greyish- white, with a slight pink tinge ; some black basal dots and a 

 slender transverse interrupted sinuous line, an oblique antemedial black-bordered 

 sinuous brown band, a medial slender sinuous line, a white-centred lunule at end of 

 the cell, a slender sinuous postmedial line, and two oblique discal more regularly 

 sinuous lines ; each line dilated at its costal end ; a marginal row of black conical 

 spots, which are situated between the veins and extend across the cilia : hindwing 

 whiter, with pale fuliginous-brown discal and marginal band, and two darker streaks 

 from anal angle ; a pale lunule at end of the cell ; blackish marginal spots between 

 the veins and across the cilia. Body greyish- white, thorax and legs black spotted ; 

 abdomen with blackish dorsal bands and lateral spots ; antenna black, shaft white. 



Expanse, cJ If, ? 2^^ inches. 



Larva with fourteen legs, naked, thickened anteriorly, tapering towards the end 

 and terminating in two long anal processes, fom'th segment conical, anterior segments 

 depressed in front, head small ; two dorsal short processes on anal segment at base 

 of long processes ; anal prolegs obsolete. Colour bright green, with a dorsal white- 



