142 THE LEPILOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



Larva witli dorsal tufts of black liairs springing from a whitish base, the 

 segments below the stigmata also hairy ; numerously dotted with black ; a dorsal 

 blue-black band, a subdorsal pale pinkish band traversed by a grey line, the lower 

 part being purplish-grey ; a lateral row of small black spots ; stigmata and legs pink ; 

 head black. Pupa purplish-red. 



" Feeds on Acanthads." (Thivaites.) 



EUPTEROTE DIEFUSA (Plate 135, Fig. 2, ^ ). 

 Dreaia diffusa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 374 (1865), g. 

 Male. Ochreous-yellow : forewing crossed by four or five oblique medial 

 indistinct pui'plish-ochreous sinuous lines, and an outer slightly more distinct straight 

 line, beyond which is a submarginal row of darker dentate spots bordered by a 

 slender dentated line; a slight purplish-ochreous subapical streak : hindwing crossed 

 by four similar lines, an outer curved straight more distinct line, a submarginal less 

 distinct spot and outer dentated line. Head, palpi, and legs above purplish- 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, ^ 2f inches. 



Genus TAGORA. 

 Tagora, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1188 (1855). 

 Male. Forewing narrower than in Eupterote ; exterior margin shorter and less 

 oblique, the posterior margin longer : hindwing also narrower, and the exterior 

 margin more oblique. Venation similar. 

 Type, T. glaucescens. 



TAGOEA MtTRINA (Plate 136, Fig. 2,$).' 

 Tagora murina, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 347. 



Male. TJpperside greyish fawn colour : forewing crossed by a darker broad 

 upper subbasal curved zigzag-bordered band, several discal narrow lunular lines, and 

 a contiguous straight double outer line ; the outer border of wing broadly greyish 

 and dotted on the veins : hindwing crossed by a very indistinct darker discal lunular 

 line, a straight outer band, and submarginal dots. Underside brown, with indistinct 

 lunular discal lines, outer straight narrow band, and submarginal dots. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Genus BRACHYTERA. 



Brachytera, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 95, fig. 1 (1868-74). 

 Wings small : forewing shorter, broader, and more regularly triangular in 

 form than in Eupterote : hindwing shorter, comparatively broader, and less convex 

 externally. Venation similar. 



