ZALISSA. I 1 1 



Genus ZALISSA. „ 



type. 

 Zalissa, \Ylk. xxxiii. 936 (1805) catocalina. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, 

 porrect ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male with short fasciculate branches; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibia? fringed with long hair; 

 abdomen with large dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly- curved and hardly 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with curved white patch beyond the reni form ... catocalina. 



B. Fore wing without white patch beyond the reniform pratti. 



4915. Zalissa catocalina. 



Zalissa catocalina, Wlk. xxxiii. 936 (1865). 



$ . Head grey ; thorax red-brown with greyish dorsal fascia ; 

 pectus white ; legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen orange-yellow, the crests red-brown, 

 the ventral surface white banded with black. Fore wing whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with red-brown and dark brown, the basal 

 area and inner area below submedian fold with a purplish gloss, a 

 curved white patch beyond the reniform between veins 7 and 2, the 

 terminal area whiter from apex to vein 2 ; subbasal line double, 



Fig. 210. — Zalissa catocalina, tf. \. 



waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly 

 oblique and slightly excurved below vein 1 ; orbicular with faint pale 

 annulus, round ; reniform with dark centre and ill-defined whitish 

 annulus, somewhat produced at upper extremity and angled inwards 

 on median nervure; postrnedial line double, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, somewhat oblique to vein 4, then very oblique and 

 slightly waved below submedian fold, a curved very slightly waved 

 white subterminal line slightly defined on each side by brown. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow% the terminal area black-brown, at costa 

 extending to middle, narrowing to tornus and with sinuous inner 

 edge ; some white on termen and the cilia white from vein 7 to 

 discal fold, the cilia then blackish w r ith a fine white line at base ; 

 a chocolate-red line on termen towards tornus with white line 



