120 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



cell ; submedian slightly curved ; apparently, no internal vein. Body short ; palpi 

 small, slender, porrect ; legs slender, squamose ; middle and hind tibia with two 

 spurs ; antennae in male bipectinated to near the tip, simple in female. 



TELDENIA ALBA (Plate 124, Fig. 1, la, cJ ? , 15, larva). 



Greyish-white. Male : both wings with a transverse discal zigzag band, composed 

 of purplish lunules with black-speckled inner borders ; beyond the lunular band is a 

 very indistinct pale purplish-brown lunular line, and a marginal row of black dots. 

 Female. The discal lunular band with a confluent purplish-brown line, outer line 

 and marginal black dots more distinct. Antennse, front of head, and legs above 

 purplish-brown . 



Expanse, c? |, ? 1 inch. 



Larva with fourteen legs ; a dorsal tubercle on anterior and twelfth segment ; 

 a slender dorsal process on fourth segment, and a lengthened process projecting 

 from anal segment ; head cleft above. Colour green, with subdorsal rows of purple 

 spots and a lateral row of black spots ; head purple. Pupa green, black striped. 



" Feeds on Eugenia firma." {Thioaites.) 



Genus DREPANA? 



LREPANA SPECULARIS (Plate 124, Fig. 2). 



Drepana specularis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 407. 



Female. Upperside pale ochreous-brpwn : forewing with the veins externally 

 and a transverse submarginal oblique narrow band pale testaceous-yellow ; a dark- 

 bordered paler blotch at base, below and beyond the cell, the rest of the wing 

 numerously covered with short pale strigse ; a narrow dusky lunule at end of the 

 cell ; a marginal row of small black- speckled spots : hindwing pale ochreous-yellow 

 anteriorly, dark brown posteriorly and lined with pale veins and traversed by short 

 pale strigge ; a narrow pale band crossing the disc, outside which are two medial 

 oval contiguous semidiaphanous pale spots ; a marginal row of black-speckled spots. 

 Underside black speckled ; transverse band on both wings black and broader ; 

 marginal speckled spots confluent on hindwing. Shaft of antennge white, pecti- 

 nations and legs brown. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Genus COBANILLA. 



Forewing triangular, arched towards the end, apex slightly falcate, exterior 

 margin convex posteriorly ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-eighth before end 

 of the cell, second close to its end, bifid at half its length, fourth from end of the 

 cell, bifid, and joining third for a short distance above its base, fifth from below its 

 junction with the third ; discocellular bent outward near upper end and inward in 



