AKCTIOPAIS. — Cfl.VEILINA. 587 



indistinct postinedial blackish lino with silver beyond it, oblique 

 from costa to vein 4, then cxcurved to submedian fold and incurved 

 to inner margin, the area beyond it suffused with deej) red-brown 

 with a paler mark above torn us ; the costa and tcrraen black ; cilia 

 leaden grey. Hind wing with the terminal half black, its inner 

 edge oblique and slightly angled outwards beyond lower angle of 

 cell : cilia leaden grey. 



(5 . Abdomen with black dorsal patch on terminal segment ; fore 

 wing without dark suffusion beyond the postmedial line. 

 Hall. Madagascar, 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus CHARILINA. 

 Ckarilina, Wlk. ii. 560(1854; amcibills. 



Type. 

 toil 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair becoming long at extremity, the :ird long, naked, and porrect ; frons 

 with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity; antennivuhnost 

 simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibite fringed with long hair above. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosini,' with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hmd wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle. 



108. Charilina amabilis. 



Mgocera amafnlis, Drury, HI. Ex. Ent. ii. pi. 13. f. 3 (1773) ; Boisd. Spec. 



Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Hct. p. 40. 

 ^'oc■tua aiicnata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. (3) ii. p. GO (1794). 

 Charilina intercis. Fold. Eeis. Nov. pi. 1U7. f. 17 (1874). 



Head, tegulso, and patagia orange ; a spot on 2nd joint of 

 palpi, the 3rd joint, sides of frons, and antennae black ; tegulaj w'ith 

 black stripes ; thorax pale yellow ; pectus and legs orange, the fore 

 and mid tibiic above and tarsi black; abdomen orange, with black 

 segmental lines. Fore wing deep red ; the costa black ; the basal 

 area pale yellow, traversed by two obliquely sinuous black lines, a 



Fig. 253. — Charilina amabilis, J. ',. 



streak on vein 1 and with a black outer edge, the yellow produced 

 along inner margin to beyond middle ; a rounded or quadrate black- 

 edged yellow spot in end of cell, and a larger irregular spot below 

 it with another s])ot just beyoiul it ; a po.^tmedial spot below costa, 

 with quadridcntato mark beyond it and larger spot below it, with 

 two small spots beyond it and one beloA\ it : two silvery antcmedial 



