964 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 12. EUMETA. 



Mas. Corpus pilosum, sat robustum. Antennae longissime et 

 usque ad apices pectinatae, thorace longiores. Abdomen alas posti- 

 cas longe superans. Pedes sat graeiles ; femora et tibiae pilosa ; 

 tibiae anticae appendiculatae. Alae vestitae, opacae, longiusculae; an- 

 ticae apud costam vix convexae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore 

 perobliquo. 



Male. Body pilose, ratber stout. Antennae pectinated to the 

 tips, longer than the thorax ; branches pubescent, very long. Ab- 

 domen extending for nearly half its length beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs rather slender ; femora and tibiae pilose; fore tibiae with a 

 long appendage, which springs from near their base and almost equals 

 them in length. Wings clothed, opaque, rather long. Fore wings 

 hardly convex in front, rounded at the tips, very oblique along the 

 exterior border; interior angle obtuse, well-defined, not rounded; 

 three superior and three inferior veins ; first superior vein short ; 

 discal areolet with two longitudinal veins ; second inferior vein 

 much further from the third than from the first, which is forked 

 near its base ; submedian and internal veins united in the disk of 

 the wing. 



1. EUMETA CkAMERII. 



Mas. Fuscus ; alee, anticce disco apices versus margineque exteriore 

 nigricantes, vitta discali strigisque exterioribus canis ; posticce 

 obscure fuscce. " Habitaculum larvae cylindricum, extus ra- 

 mulis longitudine aqualibus et parallelis arete applicatis, ob- 

 tectum. Pupa maris obscure castanea, segmentis abdominalibus 

 opacis, valde transverso sulcatis.'* 



Oiketicus Cramerii, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1854) 236, 

 pi. 37, f. 4. 



Male. Brown. Fore wings blackish in the disk towards the 

 tips and along the exterior border ; a discal stripe and some exterior 

 streaks hoary. Hind wings darker than the fore wings. Length of 

 the body 9 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a—c. Ceylon. From the Rev. J. Wenham's collection. 



d. (Larva-case). Ceylon. From the Rev. J. Wenham's collection. 



<?,/. (Larva-case). Ceylon. From Mr. Layard's collection. 



