118 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian almost straight : hindwing 

 rather long, narrow ; costal and subcostal vein touching near their base ; cell short ; 

 two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discoceUular concave, inwardly oblique, 

 radial from its lower end ; two upper medians from a footstalk beyond end of the 

 cell, lower at one-fourth before the end; submedian and internal vein slightly 

 recurved. Body stout, abdomen extending beyond hindwings ; palpi ascending, 

 squamose, second joint long, third joint one-fourth its length, conical ; proboscis 

 exserted ; antennsB of male with short cilise ; legs compactJy pilose, hind tibise with 

 four spurs. 



BEAD A TRTJUCATA (Plate 122, Fig. 2, 2a, ^ ?, 26, larva). 



Brada truncata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1666 (1858), ^. 

 Phanaca damnipennis, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 857 (1865), $ . 



Dark ferruginous-brown. Male : forewing with a blackish outwardly oblique 

 antemedial pale bordered line and a shghtly convex postmedial line, an indistinct 

 black spot at end of the cell : hindwing dusky brown, paler at the base. Thorax, 

 head, palpi and legs above dark ferruginous-brown, abdomen dusky brown above, 

 whitish beneath, legs white beneath. Female : forewing with the transverse lines 

 not pale bordered, the outer line more convex : hindwing paler than in male. 



Expanse, $ If, ? l-f inch. 



Larva with the second, third, and fourth anterior segments tumid ; head small ; 

 two short pointed dorsal tubercles on twelfth segment. Colour reddish-brown, anterior 

 segments somewhat olive -brown, with a paler centred double lunular black dorsal line 

 ending in a black band to anal segment ; anterior segments with black dorsal spots 

 and streaks ; a pale centred black lateral double line. Cocoon compact, with a 

 projected conical end ; pale reddish-brown. Pupa reddish-brown. 



Family DREPANULID^. 



Wings broad : forewing generally falcate at the tip ; antennae pectinated or 

 bipectinated in male, less so or simple in female. 



Larva with fourteen legs, anal prolegs obsolete, anal segment with a lengthened 

 projected process ; with one or several small dorsal prominences. 



Genus ORETA. 



Oreta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1166 (1855). 



Forewing short, triangular, falcate at the apex ; cell narrow, extending beyond 



half the wing, apparently with a very slender discoidal veinlet emitted within the 



cell ; first subcostal emitted from close to end of the cell, quadrifid, second at a short 



distance from below its base and terminating on costa before the apex, third from 



