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minal interval. The insect varies according to the relative amount of red scaling; ab. subrufa ab. nov. subrufa. 
(= ab. 1 Hmps.) shows very little trace of the red; while in ab. pergrisea ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) the red pergrisea. 
is entirely absent. Occurs only in S. India and Ceylon. 
L. egens Moore. Forewing grey with dense fuscous irroration, except on basal half of median area egens. 
below costa and a patch beyond cell, which are both pale rufous; inner line waved, inwardly oblique, with 
a dark shade before it; a slight dark spot in middle of cell and diffuse double bar at its end; median line 
excurved beyond the cell, faint and rufous, then oblique and sinuous inwards, outwardly defined by 
whitish; outer line blackish, defined inwardly by whitish, oblique to vein 6, punctiform to vein 4, and 
inangled on submedian fold; subterminal line black and dentate, with some white before it and some 
pale rufous from below costa to vein 3; a terminal line of blackish striae; hindwing whitish suffused 
with brownish fuscous, except along costal area and submedian interval; the lines as in fore wing, 
but interrupted on the pale areas; in the ab. rufivaga ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the rufous of the med- rufivaga. 
ian area is more extensive, reaching to outer line beyond the cell and beyond the median line on inner mar¬ 
gin. Restricted to Ceylon. 
L. fasciata Hmps. (22 d). Forewing grey with fuscous suffusion and dense black irroration; in the jasciata. 
with rufous scaling hi median area, before the subterminal line, and in the fringe ; subbasal line a diffuse dark 
shade; inner line incurved in cell, then minutely waved; a black point in mid cell, and a diffuse black spot 
at its end; median line black, externally white scaled, excurved to beyond cell, then obliquely dentate in¬ 
wards; outer line black with a grey edging, oblique to vein 6, incurved below 4, followed by a dark wavy 
edged shade; subterminal black, dentate, inwardly whitish edged; the terminal line lunulate; hinclwing si¬ 
milar; the lines and dark shading interrupted on costal area and submedian interval. The Nilgiri Hills, Madras. 
26. Genus : Coccidipliaga 8pul. 
Tongue aborted; frons smooth; palpi long and slender, the third segment short; antennae of $ with 
long ciliations; thorax and abdomen coarsely scaled, without crests; veins 3, 4 rising close together from 
lower angle of cell in forewing, stalked in hindwing; forewing white, marked with dark waved lines and a 
large reniform stigma. Larva with only ten feet; the abdominal feet represented by a ring of hooks; feed¬ 
ing on Coccidae on various trees, the scales of which it fashions into a case in which it lives and 
afterwards pupates. Type C. scitula Rmb. 
C. scitula Rmb. (= exasperata Led., exasperalis Led., gibbosa Snell., cretacea Hmps. ) (Vol. 3, pi. 51 d). scitula. 
Fore wing white; the shading leaden grey; inner line oblique outwards and curved, dark grey; outer line 
outcurved above middle, incurved below and then vertical, dark grey, broadly edged outwardly with white; 
the line itself is sometimes obsolete; space between them sometimes blotched, sometimes filled up with 
leaden grey; subterminal line white, angled outwards on vein 6 and dentate to termen below middle, 
marked externally between the veins by black flecks; apex and termen below it brown or grey brown; space 
between outer and subterminal lines leaden grey; reniform stigma grey, with black outline and pale 
centre; terminal line brown; fringe grey with dark tips beyond a pale line; hindwing white, with grey terminal 
half, traversed by a whitish subterminal line; the ab. futilis Sivinh., described originally from India, has the futilis. 
forewing brownish grey in colour. Larva pale green or rosy; head and forefeet shining black; on various 
trees, fig, oleander, Yucca, feeding exclusively on the eggs of hard-scaled Coccidae, with the scales of which 
it covers itself. This widely spread S. European and African insect is found in India; Swinhoe’s type of futilis 
was from Karachi, Sind, in N. W. India; and Hampson’s cretacea from Ceylon; it has been taken at Gooty, 
Bangalore, and Coimbatore in Madras, S. India. 
27. Genus: Porphyrinia Hbn. 
Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, the second segment somewhat rough scaled in front, 
the third short, pointed; antennae of <$ shortly ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without 
crests; forewings elongate, costa straight, apex subacute, termen obliquely curved, the fringe deep; scaling 
fine and glossy; the markings usually oblique; hindwings unicolorous, without markings. Imagines small, 
often gaily coloured, taking short flights in the sunshine; many species, if not all, double brooded. Larva 
