126 THE LEPIBOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



of the cell, trifid ; discocellulars bent acutely in the middle, emitting a discoidal 

 veinlet within the cell from the angle ; upper radial from middle of upper discocellular, 

 lower radial from a slight angle above lower end of the cell ; three median branches, 

 first or lower emitted at nearly one-fourth and second at one-seventh before end of 

 the cell ; submedian curved upward towards median, an internal vein with a lower 

 branchlet at one-third from the base : hindwing oval, broad ; costa arched ; subcostal 

 joined to the costal at its base; subcostal two-branched, the branches on a footstalk 

 one-fourth beyond end of the cell ; discocellulars bent acutely inward in the middle, 

 emitting a discoidal veinlet within the cell from the angle ; radial from lower 

 discocellular above end of the cell ; three median branches, first at one-third, and 

 middle branch at one-seventh before end of the cell ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins at equal distances apart. Body stout; coarsely clothed; palpi porrect, first 

 joint short, second joint squamose, long, extending half its length beyond the head, 

 third joint longer than second, projected upward, pilose, the hairs projecting forward 

 in the form of a brush tufted at the tip; antenna closely bipectinated, the branches 

 longest from the base and minute at the tip ; legs stout, long, pilose, tibige and tarsi 

 laterally fringed ; hind tibiee with four spurs. Female. Wings broader ; venation 

 the same ; palpi longer and more laxly pilose; antennas simple. 

 Type, S. unicolor. 



SCOPELODES ATTROGRISEA (Plate 128, Fig. 1, la, ^ ?, li, la-va). 



Male. Forewing ochreous-brown, grey speckled : hindwing ochreous, with a 

 dusky grey-brown marginal border, which is intersected by pale veins. Thorax and 

 head ochreous-brown, grey speckled ; abdomen ocln-eous, with black segmental 

 dorsal streaks and tip ; palpi reddish-ochreous ; legs hoary, hind tarsi with black tip. 

 Female. Forewing brownish-ochreous ; hindwing paler, with dusky grey-brown 

 marginal border ; thorax and abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? 3 inches. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Larva limaciform, green above, yellowish beneath. Adult with two rows of 

 large broad densely spinous tubercles ; a tricoloured — I'ed, white, and blue — 

 transverse dorsal stripe on (apparently) the ninth segment, and a black spot on anal 

 segment. Cocoon bluntly oval, purple-brown. 



" Larva nearly omnivorous ; on Coffea, Rosa, &c." (Dr. Thivaites.) 



Genus PARASA. 

 Necera* H. Schisflfer, Lep. Exot. i. fig. 176 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1138 (1855). 

 Parasa, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. ii. p. 413 (1858-9). 

 Letois, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 82, f. 15 (1867-74). 



Wings small, broad : forewing with nearly straight costa, apes rounded. 



* Pieoccupied in 1830 for a genus of Diptera. 



