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Larva pale purple-brown ; the segments armed witli six rows of lengthened 

 branched-spines. Feeds on GucurlitacecB. Pupa reddish-white, streaked with black, 

 the abdominal streaks spotted with red. 



" Found generally in the plains and up to about 4000 feet. It is about all 

 through the year " (Machuood). 



'•'Common at Kandy" (Wade). 



Family LEMOSTIIDiE. 



Erycinida, Swainson, Phil. Mag. 1827, p. 187; Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 415. 



Front legs in male rudimentary, female with six perfect legs. 



Subfamily LIBYTH^IN^. 



Palpi very long, contiguous throughout their length. Pupa suspended freely by 

 the tail. 



Genus LIBYTHEA. 



Libythea, Fabrieius, lUiger's Mag. vi. p. 284 (1807); Westwood and Doubleday, Gen. of Diurnal Lep. 



p. 412. 

 Hecaerge, Oehsenheimer, Sehmett. Eur. iv. p. 32 (1816); Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 100. 

 Chilea, Billberg, Enum.'Ins. p. 79 (1820). 



Forewing with the costal margin arched, apex acute, exterior margin strongly 

 angulated below the apex, oblique and slightly waved to lower angle, posterior 

 margin short; costal vein extending to half length of the margin; first and second 

 subcostal branches short, first emitted at about one-third before end of the cell, 

 second at half distance between it and the end, third and fourth at a third distance 

 each beyond, fourth terminating at the apex; discocellulars concave, upper bent 

 close to subcostal, radial from its angle, lower radial from their middle and terminating 

 at the angle below the apex ; middle median branch emitted at some distance before 

 lower end of the cell, lower branch from beyond one-third before its end ; submedian 

 recurved : hindwing short, lobed at the base and convex in the middle, apex oblique, 

 exterior margin scalloped, abdominal margin long. Body moderately robust, thorax 

 woolly, head tufted in front ; palpi much elongated, porrect, thickly pilose, closely 

 united, second joint long, oval, third joint of equal length, slender; legs somewhat 



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