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T. dorsalis Walk. (= castanoptera Moore, igniflua Moore, hyperantherae Moore, intensa Moore) (30 e). dorsalis. 

 Similar to repanda. Antennae light brown, head and thorax greyish white, patagia deep reddish brown, abdomen 

 reddish brown with grey segmental edges. Forewing very dark red-brown, the black discal spot distinct, the 

 white basal and costal marginal spot sharply defined; the white postdiscal band interrupted in the middle or 

 continuing sharply defined to the inner margin. Hindwing of ^ with greyish white anal spot, which in the $ 

 continues to the costal margin as a broad indistinctly bounded median band. Fringes of both wings grejdsh 

 white. Distributed over the whole of IncUa to the Sunda Islands and the Phihppines, northward to Kashmii- 

 (Kangra). 



T.hyrtacaCr. (= luscai^., buddha Lef., brahma Lef., plagiata Walk., bhira Moore) (29 a). Dark brown to kyrlaca. 

 reddish or rusty brown. Very variable in size. Forewing with four narrow, fairly straight, whitish bands, in the 

 rj an extended velvety black spot between the two middle ones, enclosing the sharply defined wliite discal spot 

 near the inner margin; i)i the $ this spot as well as the black one are absent, and the space between the inner 

 and outer bands is lighter, grey, so that between the two inner bands the darker ground-colour contrasts like 

 a transverse band. A submarginal dark wavy line is often very distinct. Southern Asia to the Himalayas, also 

 in China. — Larva dark green \nth pale brownish lateral tufts of hair. On segment 2 a red dorsal line beliind 

 a short dense tuft of hair. Segments 3 to 10 with oval dark brown velvety spots, each of which bears four 

 blue warts with long hairs. 



We add some Indian forms which extend nearly to the boundary of the Palearctic Begion, but ai-e not as yet 

 known from Palearctic territory. 



T. siva Lef. (= pallidum Walk., ganesa Lef., venustum Walk., albicans Walk.). Body light yellowish «iva. 

 grey to greyish white, patagia light reddish brown, likewise the forewing, which only in the ^ is more greyish 

 with a yellowish brown basal spot and reddish brown median one; the tM'o M'liite bands sharply defined in 

 the ^, iia the $ the median one only distinct at the costal and inner margins, and of the outer one onlj^ the costal 

 marginal portion and a sharp spot between veins 4 and 5 developed. Hindwing of (^ and $ gre3dsh white 

 with brownish marginal area. Fringes of both wings brown, blackish brown at the anal angle of the liindwing. 

 India northward to the Himalayas. Larva light ochreous brown, the lateral warts bearing long tuft-hke yellow 

 hairs; the girdle-shaped spots on segments 2 and 3 large. Segments 4 to 9 with small black spots, 10 and 11 

 with pairs of larger warts. 



T. recta Walk. Greyish brown, forewing with 4 straight, parallel, darker, transverse lines, two being recta, 

 subbasal and two postchscal, the outer one separated into spots. Submarginal line distinct, dark. Hindwing 

 unicolorous, without lighter band. Northern India. 



24. Genus : Bliiiiia Moore. 



Anteiu^ae in ^ with very long pectinations at the base, the branches quickly decreasing in length and 

 becoming gi-adually shorter to the apex, the hind row longer than the anterior one; the pectinations in the 

 $ shorter and of more even length. Palpi short, porrect, hardly extending beyond the frons. Eyes with thin 

 and short or with dense hair. Frons smooth, densely clothed M-ith porrect hair. Body densely hairy, $ with 

 thick broad anal tuft. Femora and tibiae covered with long dense hair, middle and hind tibiae with very short 

 end-spurs; tarsi smoothly scaled. Forewing long, elongate, triangidar, costal margin only slightly curved in the 

 outer half, apex pointed, distal margin but feebly convex, forming a distinct angle with the nearly straight 

 hind margin. Hindwing broad, with evenly convex distal margin, almost straight (S) or slightly convex ($) 

 costal margin and quite straight inner margin. Margin of both wings entire, fringes very short. In the forewing 

 vein 2 near the base, 3 beyond the middle of the cell. .5 directly behind 4 from the lower angle and 6 and 7 

 with short stalks from the upper angle of the cell, 8 from the fairly long stalk of 9 and 10; 2 to 8 into the 

 margin, 9 into the apex. In the hindwing vein 2 beyond the middle of the cell, 3 close to lower angle of cell, 

 4 and 5 originate together from this angle or are shortly stalked ; vein 8 first strongly curved costad near the base, 

 then united with 7 for a shorter or longer distance, forming a rather large rhomboid or more spindle-shaped basal 

 cell, from winch two indistinctly branching accessory veins originate. Cell of both veins closed, discocellular vein 

 cur\-edinthe forewing, quite straight in the hindwing. with the posterior portion directed distad. The wings are 

 rather thijily scaled or even transparent, the forewing bearing, beside a white discal spot, five narrow whitish dentate 

 bands, a subbasal pair parallel and close together and a postdiscal pair also close together, and one submarginal 

 band. — Larva and pupa are not sufficiently described morphologically, but the larva has distinct warts 

 liearing tuft-like hair, and a black tufted spot on segments 2 and 3. — The genus is absent from Europe 

 and the MediteiTanean districts. We know two East-Asiatic species, which appear to be restrictetl to the 

 Amur country, as well as a South-Asiatic one, which occurs northward as far as Kashmir. 



B. eximia Oberth. (29 d). Body of (^ very dark brown, forewing blackish brown, sUghtly transparent vxiinia. 

 in tlie middle, with dark veins, white discal spot and five narrow white dentate hues, a parallel subbasal pair 

 and a postchscal pair, and a submarginal line, the latter broken up and bounded by blackish spots at its inner edge. 

 Hindwing ochreous with black-brown margin and larger black inner marginal spot. 5 larger and lighter, body 

 dark grejdsh brown, abdomen with dense whitish grey silky anal wool, wings dull brownish grey. Markings 



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