CALAMIA. CLETHRORASA. 343 



at rest; small black piliferous dots normal, the 4th series behind 

 the spiracles, the 5th and 6th series anteriorly and posteriorly on 

 subventral space, and series 7 on the ventral surface of apodal 

 somites very small ; dorsum olive-grey with a broad yellow dorsal 

 stripe broken up into two round spots on each segment, the anterior 

 being twice indented or nearly bisected, the stripe narrower and 

 somewhat confused towards extremities ; an interrupted whitish 

 subdorsal stripe edged with black, a lateral blue-grey stripe and 

 broad yellow stigmatal stripe denned above by a waved black line ; 

 ventral surface blue-grey streaked with black ; feet yellowish ; 

 spiracles black ; or the dorsal and lateral areas blue-grey irrorated 

 with black streaks, the dorsal and subdorsal stripes edged with 

 black. Food-plant, Sambucus. 

 Cocoon thick, formed of silk. 



Genus CLETHRORASA, nov. 



Type, C. pilcheri. 



Proboscis tally developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint smoothly scaled 

 and flattened against frons, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna; of male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests; tibia; smoothly scaled; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing narrow, the margins subparallel, the apes 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discoeellulars : (i, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4782. Clethrorasa pilcheri. 



Leocyma pilcheri, Hmpsn Moths Ind. iv. p. 512 (1896). 



6 . Head and thorax white ; palpi aud lower part of frons black 

 with a few white scales ; antennae black except basal joint ; tegulae 

 at tips, pro- and mesothorax with paired metallic bluedilack 

 patches ; pectus and legs black-brown with a purplish tinge, the 

 coxae with some white hair, the tibias and tarsi banded with white ; 

 abdomen brown with some greyish hair at base, the dorsal crests 



Fig. 157 '.- — Clethrorasa pilcheri, <$ ■ ]■ 



cupreous red. Fore wing white with deep metallic green spots 

 and patches ; basal and subbasal patches on costa and a small 

 round subbasal spot below vein 1 ; an antemedial patch on costa 

 and a bar from submedian fold to inner margin ; orbicular 

 represented by a small round spot, the reniform by a conical patch 



