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middle of the posterior margin : hindwing yellow, witli a black oval subapical spot. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs olivaceous-brown ; middle and hindlegs ochreous ; 

 abdomen yellow, tipt with brown. 



Expanse i 2 ItV inch. 



Larva semilooped, elongated ; with 16 legs, the two first middle pair aborted 

 and unfit for walking ; a slight conical dorsal hump on 12th segment ; colour greyish- 

 brown above, purplish-brown beneath ; sides greyish-white and traversed by a 

 longitudinal brown line ; spiracles black ; head ochreous-yellow, with a black spot in 

 front; legs blackish. 



Pupa elongated, narrow, purplish-red. 



Genus ANORATHA. 



Anoratha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1867), p. 82. 



Forewing long, narrow, triangular; apex acute, shghtly falcate, exterior margin 

 very oblique, slightly angular in the middle, posterior margin in male about half 

 length of the anterior ; cell extending beyond half the length ; first subcostal emitted 

 at three-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, fifth from end and 

 slightly touching third near the base ; discocellular inwardly oblique, recurved, bent 

 close to upper end and below the middle, radials from the angles ; middle median 

 fi-om close to end of the cell, lower at one-half ; submedian much curved at the base : 

 hindwing rather- narrow, anterior margin extending beyond posterior margin of 

 forewing ; apex rounded, exterior margin angular in the middle ; cell half the length, 

 broad ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular inwardly oblique, slightly 

 concave, radial from above the middle ; two upper medians from beyond end of the 

 cell, recurved upwards, lower median at about one-half and almost parallel with the 

 upper ; submedian and internal veins slightly recurved. Body slender ; thorax and 

 head laxly clothed, frontal tuft pilose ; palpi porrect, long, compressed ; second joint 

 clothed above and beneath with short hairs, straight, slightly recurved in the female, 

 ascending slightly upward and outward to level of the vertex and extending half its 

 length beyond the frontal tuft, third joint about one-third the length of second, 

 fusiform ; antenna3 in male setose, with a few longer very slender lashes ; simple in 

 the female ; abdomen long, attenuated and extending half beyond the hindwing in 

 male, and with a valvular pilose tuft at the apex ; legs very long, slender, squamous ; 

 femora slightly fringed beneath ; spurs long and slender. 



Type, A. costalis. 



ANORATHA PARITALIS (Plate 176, Fig. 7 c?> 7a $). 

 Hypena imritalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 65 (1858). 

 Male. Forewing ohvescent ochreous-brown, indistinctly flecked with short 



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