122 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



neai' base of the first, both running close together towards their end and terminating 

 at the apex, third from below second at nearly one-fourth from its base, fourth at 

 two-thirds between the base of first and end of the cell, fifth from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular slightly concave ; three median branches, median vein curved upward to 

 subcostal at its base, middle median emitted at about one-sixth, and lower at nearly 

 two-thirds before end of the cell ; submedian recurved, with a short lower basal 

 loop and projecting spur : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin very oblique, 

 convex ; costal vein arched from the base, extending to apex ; cell broadest in 

 the middle, extending nearly two-thirds the wing; subcostal widely separated 

 from the costal ; three subcostal branches, first at nearly half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-sixth before the end ; discocellular slightly concave ; three 

 median branches, middle branch at one-sixth and lower at nearly half before end 

 of the cell; submedian vein slightly curved at base. Body large, stout; palpi 

 short ; antennge very broadly bipectinated to near the tip, the branches in pairs 

 and ciliated ; legs short, thick, densely pilose. 



ANTHER^A CINGALESA (Plate 125, Fig. 1, la, S ?, U, larva). 



Male. Deep yellowish-ochreous, or reddish-ochreous ; ocelli round, with black 

 outer ring, purplish inner border and white line : forewing paler ochreous at the 

 apex, which is speckled with purplish-white scales ; costal border hoary ; a very 

 indistinct darker ochreous shade crossing the disc through the ocellus, and a similar 

 outer lunular shade ; a slender slightly grey-bordered purjjle-brown streak crossing 

 base of the cell, and a waved similar subbasal streak beneath ; a submarginal purple- 

 brown line bordered by a slight purplish-white lunular outer line; the outer margin 

 of the wing slightly olivaceous : hindwing with a subbasal transverse indistinct 

 purple-brown waved streak, a very indistinct darker ochreous shade crossing the disc 

 through the cell, and an outer discal similar lunular shade, followed by a purple- 

 brown submarginal lunular line with a very slight purplish- white outer border. 

 Female deep yellowish-ochreous ; the ocelli larger, the subbasal streaks and sub- 

 marginal purple line prominent, the latter with broad purplish-white outer border. 

 Front of thorax, and collar, hoary ; front of head, palpi, and legs ochreous. 



Expanse, 5f to 6-| inches. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Adult larva with two dorsal rows of yellow tubercular prominences, from which 

 radiate a few short hairs ; colour green, with a yellow lateral band ending in a dilated 

 brown band on anal segment ; a lateral purple-bordered pearly- white lunate spot on 

 sixth and seventh segment; spiracles yellow^ below which is a row of black dots; 

 head small ; head and forelegs purple-brown. Cocoon oval, hard, brownish-grey, 

 attached to a twig by a short coarse silken peduncle. 



" Feeds on Terminalia." (Tliivaites.) 



