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subbasal band, wbicL curves upward to the costa and returns across tbe disc to 

 above anal angle ; tbe marginal border is ochreous olive-brown, traversed by a waved 

 black line and an inner broken chain -like row of small blackish or purple-red spots. 

 Body purplish-ferruginous, with white and dark grey abdominal bands above, and 

 pale-bordered purple spots below ; legs hoary ; antenna ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse 6^ to 9 inches. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Note. — The larger specimens are of a uniformly paler colour. 



Larva. Adult. Green, with pale brownish speckles. Head small ; second, 

 third, and fourth segments with a dorsal conical prominence ; fifth to twelfth 

 segments with long blunt fleshy bluish-green dorsal and subdorsal spines, which 

 project backward; a lateral blue-black slender spine on second to sixth segment, and 

 a sublateral row of similar spines from second to twelfth segment, both rows being 

 projected forward ; spiracles blue- green ; on anal segment is a red oval ring above 

 the clasper ; middle claspers black. Cocoon large, lengthened, pyriform ; of a fine 

 silken texture, pale greyish-brown, attached to a twig by a silken peduncle amongst 

 the leaves. 



" Feeds on Cinnamon and other trees." {Br. Thivaites.) 



" Very common in the gardens about Colombo." (Tennant.) 



Family LIMACODID^. 



Wings short and broad. Antennse simple or nearly so in both sexes, or 

 bipectinated to about one-third the length, in some genera bipectinated throughout 

 in the male and simple in the female ; proboscis obsolete. 



Larva limaciform or onisciform, oblong, convex above ; with fleshy protuberances 

 of various size, arranged along the back and sides, rarely more lengthened anteriorly 

 and posteriorly, and crested with short spinous hairs. In some genera these 

 protuberances are limited to the sides, in others the surface is entirely naked ; 

 anterior legs small, others mostly rudimentary. Cocoon oval or round, of a firm 

 cartilaginous texture throughout, sometimes with a slight silken outer covering ; 

 attached to the leaves or bark. Imago escapes through a circular opening cut out 

 at one end. 



Genus SCOPELODES. 



Scopelodes, Westwood, Duncan's Nat. Library, vol. xxxvii. p. 222 (1841); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 

 B. M. p. 1104. 



"Wings somewhat large, broad. Male : forewing clothed with short, thick, 

 somewhat raised scales; costa almost straight, exterior margin oblique, posterior 

 margin rounded ; cell long, narrow ; subcostal vein five-branched, first emitted at 

 one-fifth before end of the cell, second from the end, third in a direct line from end 



