110 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



base of costal and subcostal veins ; costal vein ai'clied at the base ; first subcostal 

 at one-third before end of tlie cell; discocellulars outwardly oblique, radial from 

 their middle ; cell broad ; middle median from immediately before end of the cell, 

 lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian nearly straight ; internal much 

 recurved. Body moderate; palpi porrect, second joint long, squamose, extending 

 half length beyond the head, third joint one-fourth its length, slender ; legs 

 squamose, short ; antennae gradually thickened to end, tip pointed. 

 Type, C. Jafra. 



CHERITEA PSEUDOJAFRA. 



Male. Upperside purplish violet-blue, olivaceous-brown in some lights ; 

 marginal line black : hindwing with a large anal black patch bordered above and 

 below by slender white lunules. Cilia and tail white. Female violet-brown, with 

 broad white borders to black anal patch. Underside entirely white : forewing with a 

 very indistinct slender black discal broken line and linear submarginal line : hindwing 

 with a similar slender discal and submarginal sinuous line, and marginal lunules ; a 

 large inner and outer anal black spot and two smaller intervening spots, each 

 speckled with metallic-green scales. 



Expanse, $ ly'V) ^ lyV inch. 



" Kornegalle and Lower Ambegamoa. Scarce" (ilfac^ityooc?). 



Genus LOXURA. 

 Loxura, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 119 (1829). 



Forewing subtriangular ; costa very convex to the tip, apex pointed, exterior 

 margin straight, slightly oblique, posterior margin long, nearly straight; costal vein 

 extending to half the wing; first, second, and third subcostals at equal distances 

 apart, first branch emitted at more than one-half before end of the cell, second at 

 one-third, the third at one-fifth, fourth at one-half from below third and terminating 

 at apex, fifth from a slight angle at end of the cell ; discocellulars slightly concave, 

 erect, radial from their middle; cell broad, longest at upper end; middle median 

 branch at one-fifth and lower at one-third before end of the cell ; submedian almost 

 straight : hindwing short, produced hindward into a broad lengthened tail; exterior 

 margin even, very oblique below the apex ; abdominal margin very long, anal lobe 

 moderate ; costal vein arched at the base and thence straight to near the apex ; first 

 subcostal at one-third before end of the cell; discocellulars recurved, radial from 

 their middle ; cell broad ; upper median from immediately before end of the cell, 

 lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian long, extending to anal angle ; 

 internal recurved. Body small, short ; palpi porrect, very long, flattened and 

 squamose throughout, second joint projecting two-thirds beyond the head, third 



