154 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



branch emitted at one-lialf before end of the cell, second, third, and fourth from end 

 of the cell, fourth bifid at beyond one-half its length ; discocellular inwardly oblique, 

 bent below the middle, emitting a discoidal veinlet within the cell from the angle, 

 which extends to base of the cell and emits a short branch, at about one-third from 

 its end, to the median between the second and third branches, a second or upper 

 discoidal veinlet is also emitted from the discocellular above the angle, which joins 

 the subcostal before the first branch ; radial emitted from the discocellular opposite 

 the upper discoidal veinlet; median four-branched, first or lower branch emitted 

 beyond one-half, second at one-third, and third at one-tenth before end of the cell; 

 submedian and internal vein recurved and joined together at the base, the internal with 

 a lower branch at one-fifth from the base : hindwing rather long and narrow ; costal 

 vein absent ; subcostal extending near the margin to near the apex ; cell extending 

 to two-thirds the wing ; discocellular bent near upper end, emitting a discoidal 

 veinlet within the cell, from the angle, which is joined to subcostal, and a lower 

 discoidal veinlet is also emitted from about one-half below the angle, and from which 

 a short branch extends from one-third its length to the median between the second 

 and third branches ; two radials, the upper from the discocellular above upper 

 discoidal veinlet, lower radial from opposite lower discoidal veinlet; median four- 

 branched, first or lower branch emitted at one-half, second at about one-third, and 

 third from angle close to but below end of the cell ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins. Body long, thick, woolly ; palpi very short, pilose ; antennas in male broadly 

 bipectinated to two-thirds its length, end serrated, antenna? in female minutely 

 serrated to tip, the pectinations ciliated in male, simple in female ; legs laxly pilose 

 beneath ; ovipositor exserted. 



ZEUZERA COFFEiE (Plate 143, Fig. 1, la, c? ?, 1^ larva). 

 Zeuzera Coffew, Nietner, Observations on Enemies of the Coffee Tree in Ceylon, p. 21 (1861). 



Ochreous-white : forewing with short transverse steel-blue spots between the 

 veins, and a marginal row of triangular spots : hindwing with a marginal row of 

 similar spots, and a few slender strigge between the veins in the female. Thorax 

 white, black spotted above ; abdomen white with slender red segmental bands and 

 transverse blue streaks ; legs bluish-brown, femora and tibiae white beneath ; antennas 

 brown, the branches ciliated with white. 



Expanse, ^ l-i-, ? If inch. 



Larva red, with a few short fine hairs ; horny plate on second and anal segment 

 black. Pupa red, the segments spined. 



" Attacks the Coffee-trees in Ceylon, destroying many trees, young and old, the 

 larva eating out the heart ; for this purpose it generally enters the tree six or twelve 



