SPHETTA. GLOTTULA. 167 



1585. Sphetta apicalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 457 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, 

 pi. 121, tigs. 2, 2 « (larva) ; C. 8? S. no. 1139. 

 Sphetta biocellata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 405 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1140. 



cf . Head, thorax, and fore wing pale wainscot-brown, the last 

 with traces of waved dark lines at the base ; a double angulate 

 aotemedial line ; a black streak from the middle of the cell to apex, 

 before reaching which it is curved upwards, leaving a large pale 



Fig. 106. — Sphetta apicalis, J. \. 



patch on the costa before the apex ; the orbicular and reniform 

 spots small and pale ; four waved postmedial lines and one waved 

 submarginal. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous. 

 2 • Browner and darker. 



Larva greyish blue above, green below, with a darker lateral 

 band dividing the two colours ; a dorsal series of setiferous tuber- 

 cles from the 4th to anal somite ; a subdorsal series of small black 

 spots. 



Hob. Sikhioi ; Bombay ; Mgiris ; Ceylon. Exp., d 42, $ 50 

 millim. 



Genus GLOTTULA. 

 Glottula, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vi, p. 359 (1837). 



Type, G. pancratii, Cyr., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; S. Africa; Mauritius ; throughout India, Burma, 

 and Ceylon ; Java. 



Eyes minutely pubescent ; proboscis almost obsolete ; palpi 

 porrect and short ; antenna) serrate in both sexes ; thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts, the former with erect woolly pile. 



1586. Glottula domillica, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 399 h; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. hi, pi. 145, tigs. 2, 2 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 1780. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown, palest beyond the middle ; subbasal, medial, and post- 

 medial indistinct waved black lines ; the reniform ochreous ; a 

 curved submarginal ochreous line with ferruginous lunules on each 

 side of it ; a marginal series of black lunules. Hind wing pure 

 white. 



