102 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



end of tlie cell ; discocellulars concave, acutely angled in tlie middle, radial from their 

 angle ; upper median fi^om close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the 

 end ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body robust ; palpi porrect, second 

 joint squamose, projecting slightly beyond the head, third joint slender; legs 

 squamose, femora slightly pilose beneath ; antennae gradually thickened to tip. 



IRAOTA M.a:CENAS (Plate 40, Fig. 2, 2a, g , 2b, larva). 

 Hesperia Mcecenas, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 271 (1793); Donovan, Ins. of China, t. 39, f. 2. 

 Deudorix Mcecenas, Hewitson, Illust. Diurn. Lep. p. 25; Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180. 

 Deudorix Timoleon, var. Hewits. I.e. pi. 8, fig. 21. 



Male and female. Upper side violet-black ; lower discal area deep metallic-blue. 

 Underside dark chestnut-brown : forewing with a white discoidal streak, a large 

 discocellular spot, some transverse discal speckled spots, and lower submarginal 

 lunular spots ; posterior border also white : hindwing with a basal slender white- 

 speckled curved line, some sinuous lines below the cell, an indistinct discal and a 

 submarginal lunular line, and slender marginal line, the discal and anal area also 

 minutely white-speckled ; anal lobe and spot beyond black. 



Expanse, $ l-f-, 2 1| inch. 



Larva onisciform ; dorsally thickened, sloping obliquely at each end ; pale green, 

 with rows of small circular spots and longitudinally intervening pale pink bands. 

 Pupa short, very broad laterally ; purple-brown, with darker dorsal bands and 

 segmental spots. 



"Feeds on Ficus religiosa" (Thivaites). 



Genus DEUDORIX. 

 Deudorix, Hewitson, Illust. Diurnal Lep. p. 16 (1863). 

 Forewing triangular; apex acute, exterior margin oblique, almost even, angle 

 acute, posterior margin straight ; costal vein arched in the middle ; first subcostal 

 emitted at two-fifths, second at one-fifth, and third immediately before end of the 

 cell, fourth at one-half fi^om below third and terminating at the apex, fifth from end 

 of the cell ; discocellulars concave, angled in the middle, radial from their angle ; cell 

 long, widest in the middle ; middle median branch at one-sixth and lower at two-fifths 

 before end of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, produced hiudward, 

 exterior margin uneven ; both sexes with a slender tail from lower median vein, 

 lobated at anal angle ; costal vein much arched at the base ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-fourth before end of the cell ; discocellulars oblique, slender, radial from their 

 middle ; cell short, broad at the end ; middle median from very near the end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body 



