APPEXDIX. 541 



PHALACRA VIDHISAEIA (Plate 201, Fig. 1, ?, la larva). 

 mmtropMla Vidhisaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. lift. B. M. xxi. p. 319 (1861), ?. 

 Phalacra metagonaria. Walker, id. xxxv. p. 1030 (1866), S. 

 ? Acroptcris conprimaria, Hiibnor, Zutriige, v. \\ l^^j fig- 867 (1837). 



Cinereous-brown. Forewing with two oblique superposed black points at end 

 of the cell ; a curved discal and submarginal row of pale-bordered black points, the 

 former being linear at its lower end : hindwing with a pale-bordered brown subbasal 

 line, a discal pale-bordered denticulated line, and a marginal row of black points ; 

 a black point at end of the cell. Abdomen with brownish bands. 



Expanse 1 to Ifo inch. 



Larva fusiform, head broad; with lateral and dorsal setfB, and prolonged anal 

 setaceous spines ; colour green, with a dorsal pink band laterally bordered with 

 yellow and two red lines. Pupa dark purple, with a white powdery-bloom. 



Genus DRAPETODES. 



Drapetodcs, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 424 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. Go3 (1861). 



Forewing short, hardly triangular ; costa arched at base, apex obtuse; cell 

 half the length ; first subcostal at one-third, second from end, quadrifid, the fifth 

 being emitted from below second close to its base ; discocellular bent near upper 

 end and acutely outward in middle and again close to lower end, radials from upper 

 and lower angles ; middle median at oue-third, lower at two-thirds : hindwing broad, 

 triangular, apex convex; first subcostal at half before end of cell ; discocellular bent 

 obliquely outward above middle and close to lower end, radial from lower angle ; 

 middle median at one-third, lower at two-thirds. Body slender in male, thick in 

 female ; palpi obliquely ascending, slender, almost straight, squamous, third joint 

 short, obtuse ; antenna3 thick, flattened, smooth ; legs short and rather thick, 

 squamous, middle tibia3 with one pair and hind tibijB with two pairs of spurs, the 

 outer being long and slender. 



Type, D. mitaria. 



DRAPETODES FfiATERCULA (Plate 200, Fig. 1, S , \a larva). 



Smaller than D. mitaria. Wings paler yellow: forewing with the curved 

 oblique discal wavy lines more distinct and black-speckled towards their posterior 

 end, the marginal black dentated band of metallic scales very prominent : hindwing 

 with the lines and middle band very prominent, the band dark ochreous-brown, the 

 discal lines well separated, and with a wider clear space between the inner line and 

 edge of the band ; marginal black hue prominent. 



Expanse, cJ A, ? 1 i^ich. 



