100 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



marginal row of red lunules from anal angle outwardly bordered by a slender white 

 line. Underside pale ochreous-brown or greyish- ochreous ; basal area of forewing 

 with ochreous or white-bordered black spots ; a curved white obUque black-bordered 

 discal band and a slender marginal line ; a short waved streak on lower end of discal 

 band; basal area of hindwing with ochreous or white-bordered black spots, a curved 

 medial sinuous black line, a more even discal line, and a submarginal line, the latter 

 white within and bordered by metallic-green lunules, the subanal spaces also black- 

 speckled. Palpi brown above, white beneath; legs white with black bands. 

 Expanse, ^ 1, 9 1|; inch. 



" Eastern and Western Provinces. In low country forests during S. W. monsoon 

 — May to September. Flutters about among the trees and settles on the leaves. 

 Easily captured " {Hutchison). 



"Kandy; Galle. Common" (JFarie). 



Genus ZESIUS. 

 Zesius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816). 



Forewing triangular ; costal vein short, curved ; first subcostal emitted at one- 

 half, second at one-third before end of the cell, third trifid, emitted close to end of 

 the cell, fourth at one-half and fifth at beyond two-thirds ; discocellular slightly 

 recurved, upper radial from end of the cell, lower from middle of discocellular ; cell 

 short, broad; middle median at one-sixth before end of the cell, lower at nearly half 

 before the end ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing short, broadly produced 

 hindward ; apical margin very convex, exterior margin angled at end of middle and 

 lower median veins and at the submedian vein, with a slender tail from the lower 

 median and submedian in the male and a third tail from the middle median in the 

 female ; costal vein much arched from the base ; first subcostal emitted at one-half 

 before end of the cell ; discocellulars slightly obliquely recurved, radial from their 

 middle ; cell broad ; middle median from one-sixth and lower at nearly one-half 

 before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal much recurved. Body stout ; 

 palpi long, slender, porrect, squamose, second joint projecting half beyond the head, 

 third joint very slender, one-fourth length of second, pointed ; legs squamose ; 

 antennae with a lengthened club gradually thickening to tip. 



Type, Z. Chrysomallus. 



ZESIUS CHRYSOMALLUS (Plate 40, Fig. 4, 4a, $ 2, Ab, larva). 



Zesius Chrysomallus, Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. fig. 301, 302 (1823), $. 

 Dipsas Chrysomallus, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 33 (1857), $ 9. 

 lalmenus Chrysomallus, Hewitson, Illu.<t. D. Lep. pi. 24, f. 4, 5. 



Male. Upperside pale cupreous-red, costal and outer borders narrowly brown : 



