IHYRESTRA . — ERANA. 



brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen rufous, the crests and 

 anal tuft green, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black. 

 Fore wing olive-green, the area just before the antemedial line and 

 the medial area suffused with brown ; the subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, 

 filled in with green, oblique from costa to vein 1, then incurved ; 

 claviform very indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form green, defined by white at sides, oblique oblong and almost 

 forming a V-shaped mark ; postmedial line double, filled in with 

 green, strongly bent outwards below costa, straight to vein 4, then 



Fig. 2. — Thyrestra hyalophora, (}. \. 



oblique and bent outwards to inner margin, some violaceous beyond 

 it except towards costa and inner margin, followed by some brown 

 and slight black streaks on the veins and some pale points on costa ; 

 subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 

 4, 3, and bent outwards to tornus, the area beyond it suffused with 

 brown ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown inter- 

 sected with whitish. Hind wing brown, with a large hyaline patch 

 in, below, and beyond lower part of cell ; cilia pale, with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown ; 

 a black s^wt at upper angle of cell, a sinuous postmedial line 

 obsolete at middle, and some terminal lunules. 

 Hah. Assam, Khcisis, 1 d' type. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus ERANA. 



Type. 



Erana, Wlk. xi. 605 (1857) graininosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with bair ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennje of male almost simple ; head and 

 thorax clothed with rough scales, pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; 

 tibite fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on proximal segments and 

 lateral fringes of hair, the claspers of male large. Fore wing narrow, the 

 termen obliquely rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, vein 6 

 slender ; the upper discocellular absent ; 6 from upper angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked; 10, 11 from cell; male with a fringe of very long hair below basal 

 half of costa on underside. Hind wing of male vei'y broad, the costal area 

 greatly expanded and lobed ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; the discocellulars 

 and vein 5 almost obsolete ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



