394 lUIOV. I LOCKIIA MA LA Y. I NA. 



Genus GANGAEA. 



Gawiara. Monre, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 104 (1881). 



This geims is closely allied to the preceding, Evionota, and seems to differ principally — so 

 far as I can discover — by tlie median nervure between the bases of the two upper median 

 nervules being straight, and not curved as in Erionola. 



1. Gangara thyrsis. (Tab. XXXIV., lig. 18.) 



Pajnlin T/n/rsis, Fiil.ricins, Syst. Ent. p. 53'2, n. :WS (1775); Mant. Ins. p. 86, n. 781 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. 



p. HB;-J. 11. 204 (1793). 

 Tclei/oiiK.s Tln/isis, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lop. p. '202. n. 5 1 1809) ; Wood-J\Ias. & de Nic. J. A. S. Beug. vol. i.. p. 261, 



11. 127 (1881) ; ibia. p. 238, u. 64 (1881). 

 Hespcrui rhi/rsi^, Pb.tz, Stott. Ent Zeit. xliii. p. 331 (1882). 

 Hesperia I'awlin, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 254, t. 7, f. 10, lOrt (18571 : Moore, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1805, p. 790. 

 (riiiKiiini Tlnimis, iloore, Lop. Ccyl. vol. i. p. 105, t. 00, f. 3, 3ii (1881). 



Male and Female. Winp;s above cliocolate-lirown : anterior wings with six pale ochraceous spots, 

 of which the three largest are diseal, and situate one crossing cell, one beneath cell and between the 

 two lower median nervules, and the third between the first and second median nervules, the other 

 three spots are small and subapical (in some specimens there is an additional linear spot on suhniedian 

 nervure) ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than above ; anterior 

 wings with the disk darker and spotted as above, the inner marginal area also pale ochraceous, and 

 with a tuft of short hairs in male, the subapical area irroratcd with liluish-grey scales ; posterior wings 

 irrorated with bluish-grey scales, which form some irregular fascia; across their surface. Body and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, J and s , 70 to 83 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; Bengal (Moore); Canara (Horsf. & Moore). — Ceylon (Thwaites— coll. 

 Dist.).— Andaman Islands ; Port Blair (Gale. i\Ius.).— Nicobar Islands (Calc. Mus.).— Burma ; Moulmein 

 (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (Birch— coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kimst.— Calc. Mus.).— 

 -Tava (Horsf. tt Moore). 



I am indebted to Mr. J. K. Birch, of Butterworth, Province Wellesley, for a specimen of 

 this species, which, as he wrote to me (under date of April 24th, 1888), was '-Caught in my 

 verandah a few nights ago, attracted by the lamp." 



The larva is figured in Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,'* and is there thus described: — 

 " Larva greyisli-white, with a few ochreous dorsal spots and marks. From the body, 

 according to ]_)r. Thwaites, a loose shaggy tilameutous clothing consisting of pure waxf is 

 excreted, but which is easily rubbed off when handled, leaving the larva (juite naked. Feeds 

 on Palmacea;. I'lipa pale olivaceous-yellow ; the tougue s])irally i)rotruiled." |; 



••■ Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. tali. (iO, f. on. 



I 111 the Ti-aiis. Eut. Sue. for 187(), p. 51'J, Prof. Westwootl publislierl '• Notes on the h:il)its nt'a Lepidopterous Insect 

 parasitic on Fuhjorn i-nnddarto., and states that tliere is every probability ■'fur mir believiuj,' that II is u]iim the waxy secretion 

 of the Fidr/ora that this parasite subsists." 



J Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 165. 



