152 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON: 



SITANA BIMACULATA (Plate 104, Fig. 1, 1«, S 9, 1^, larva). 



Lebeda concolor et L. bimaculata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vi. p. 1463 (1855), $ . 



Suana ampla, Walker, id. vi. p. 1502, g. 



Suana bimaculata, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 428, pi. I3a, f. 2, 2a, ^ g . 



Male. Dark dusky purplish-ferruginous : forewing crossed by five indistinct 

 equidistant blackisli sinuous lines, and a submarginal macular line ; a small silvery- 

 "wkite spot at end of the cell. Female paler : forewing with similar transverse 

 indistinct blackish sinuous lines, the submarginal being more distinctly macular and 

 grey speckled ; the area between the middle lines, and also the outer border washed 

 with purplish-grey ; a large silvery-white spot at end of the cell, and a small whitish 

 spot at base of the wing. 



Expanse, <J 2f, 9 5 inches. 



Larva. Male greyish-brown, female mostly grey, numerously covered with short 

 longitudinal black strigee; slightly hairy above, the hairs pale brown, densely tufted 

 with paler, brown-spotted, decumbent hairs along the side below the spiracles, the 

 tufts projecting from warty protuberances ; on front of third and fourth segment is 

 a transverse raised protuberance, from each of which a dense short tuft of black hairs 

 projects forward, and on twelfth and last segment is a short conical protuberance, 

 the former of which is hairy. Head black striped. Cocoon greyish-ochreous. Pupa 

 purple-red. 



" Feeds on Gareya arhorea, &c." {Dr. TJnoaites.) 



SUANA CERVINA (Plate 139, Fig. 2, $, 2a, larva). 

 Suana cervina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 410, 9. 



Female. Upperside dark brownish-fawn colour : forewing grey speckled, crossed 

 by four indistinct medial transverse dusky lunular bands, the two inner bands bent 

 across the cell towards base of costa ; an outer submarginal band of blacker and 

 broader pale-bordered lunules ; a grey- white s]Dot at base of wing and a jDrominent 

 large silvery-white spot at end of the cell : hindwing with a very indistinct dusky 

 brown submarginal fascia. Thorax, head, and palpi dark purplish-black; tibisa and 

 tarsi above black. Abdomen reddish. Antennse grey. Underside uniform brownish- 

 fawn colour. 



Expanse 3f inches. 



Larva purplish-grey, numerously covered with slender black strigge, a subdorsal 

 black oblique streak on fifth to twelfth segment, and an angulated spotted line below 

 the spiracles ; sublateral continuous tufts of decumbent hairs grey, speckled with 

 white; dorsal crested tufts on third and fourth segment black, posterior conical tuft 

 hairy. Cocoon greyish-ochreous. Pupa purplish-red. 



