72 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



linear marginal line, the third spot from anal angle large and blackest. Palpi black 

 above ; legs with prominent black bands ; antenna black with white annular bands. 



Expanse, ^ tV, ? 1 inch. 



Larva light green, vermiform, middle segments swollen. Pupa thick, blunt at 

 the ends. Feeds on Sapindacece. 



"Kandy. Very common and easy to capture" [Wade). 



Genus PITHECOPS. 



PitJiecops, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, p. 66 (1828). 



"Wings small, very broad : forewing elliptical ; much arched from the base, 

 exterior margin convex, posterior margin of equal length with anterior ; costal vein 

 extending to less than half length of the margin ; subcostal branches very short, first 

 branch emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-third before its end, 

 third at one-sixth before its end, fourth at one-half beyond the cell and terminating 

 on costa before the apex, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellulars very slender, upper 

 slightly longest, nearly straight ; cell long, broad ; middle median branch emitted at 

 one-sixth before end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before its end ; submedian 

 straight : hindwing oval ; exterior margin very convex ; costal vein arched at base, 

 extending to apex ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before end of the 

 cell ; discocellulars very slender, upper curved outward, lower cui'ved inward ; cell 

 broad ; two upper median branches emitted 'from end of the cell, lower at one-third 

 before its end, submedian and internal vein straight. Body slender ; palpi porrect, 

 slender, clothed with short lax scales, second joint laterally compressed, long, 

 j)rojecting half its length beyond the head, third joint about half its length, longest 

 in the female, slightly clavate at tip in the male and cylindrical in the female ; legs 

 slender, fore tarsi composed of five joints, laterally spined, and in the male with a 

 terminal bifid claw and in the female with a blunt claw ; antennse with a well-formed 

 lengthened spatular club. 



PITHECOPS DHARMA (Plate 34, Fig. 4). 



Male. Upperside vinous-brown : forewing with the middle of the discal area 

 slightly white speckled, costal edge white streaked : hindwing with the outer upper 

 area broadly white ; a marginal row of brown oval spots, each encircled by a white 

 border ; cilia white. Female more intense brown, the discal white-speckled patch on 

 forewing more distinct : hindwing entirely brown. Underside bluish-white : forewing 

 with brown streaks on edge of costa, a brown curved streak at end of the cell, an 

 outer discal transverse curved row of six short waved streaks, and a marginal row of 

 narrow spots, bordered within by a slender line and outwardly by the marginal line : 



