T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER 23 
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PLATYPTILIA CACALIA, n.sp.. 4-2, 9-4 
Male and female. Expanse 16 mm. Palpi porrect, short, second joint 
dilated with scales, third with short rough scales, short, acuminate ; greyish, 
fuscous externally. Head greyish-fuscous. Antenne greyish, obscurely 
ringed with fuscous. Thorax greyish-fuscous. Legs whitish, dilated with 
brownish scale-tufts at apices of tarsi; posterior tibize greyish, irrorated with 
fuscous and obscurely broadly banded at origins of spurs which are whitish, 
bcownish at base and apex. Abdomen moderately long, greyish, irrorated 
with fuscous which tends to form a patch in middle of back. 
Forewing cleft from about ?: first segment broadening posteriorly, apex 
falcate, posterior angle well marked ; second segment broadening posteriorly, 
both angles well marked, termen sinuately convex : brownish-grey irrorated 
with white and reddish-brown : costal area strongly irrorated with blackish ; 
an elongate blackish dot in cell beyond 1/3; a large blackish costal triangle at 
2/3, its apex running obliquely into basal half of second segment, its outer edge 
irregular and not touching base of cleft; first segment with very ill-defined 
whitish bars at + and 3, first only evident towards costa, second followed by 
a clearly-defined terminal blackish suffusion narrowest at apex and broadening 
regularly to posterior margin of segment ; second segment with clearly defined 
blackish suffusion on posterior fourth, preceded by an ill-defined whitish 
bar. Cilia on costa blackish with a few scattered whitish scales, beyond 
costal triangle narrowly whitish, and mixed with whitish before apex ; on 
termen ochreous-white, black at base ; within cleft ochreous-white with a few 
scattered black scales, black opposite terminal black suffusion ; on dorsum 
ochreous-white with scattered black scales tending to form a broad weak 
scale-tooth at about 3/5. tre 
Hindwing cleft from about 2/5 and 1/6: first segment dilated posteriorly 5 
second segment dilated posteriorly, subtriangular, apéx very acute, termen 
concave, himder angle distinct ; third segment sublinear, tornus almost ob- 
solete : fuscous-grey, wrorated with fuscous-brown. Cilia brownish-grey ; 
around apex and tip of second segment blackish ; on dorsum paler, with a 
rather weak black scale-tooth at about 4, preceded by a few scattered black 
scales and followed by a smaller number of weaker black scales. 
Coimbatore ; 5th December 1917 (Fletcher). Adults flyimg over flowers 
of Cacalia coccinea, in the flower-heads of which the larve and pup were 
found. Twelve specimens. 
This species is superficially very like P. molopias, but is evidently distinct 
from the form of the pupa. At the time of capture it was supposed to be 
P. molopias and no description of the larva was made. 
