CHABUATA. 



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Sect. III. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of long hairs 

 from base. 



a. Fore wing yellow irrorated and striated with rufous dUtincta. 



b. Fore wing reddish or grey tinged with red, irrorated and 



striated with brown ohscnra, 



c. Fore wing grey tinged \*ith brown ; hind wing on under- 



side with the terminal area dark picnctosa. 



1501. Chabuata distincta. 



Aletiadisthtcta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333, pi. 37, f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 277. 

 Aletia exanthemata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 410 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M, 



Tii. p. 50, pi. 126. f. 6. 



Head and thorax yellow and rufous mixed ; a more or less 

 prominent dark line near extremity of tegulae and some black scales 

 near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral tufts 

 of male black. Fore wing yellow, thickly irrorated and striated 

 with rufous ; the costal edge fuscous ; antemedial line curved and 

 slightly sinuous ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 yellow with some rufous scales on them and ill-defined, the former 



Fig. 54. — Chabuata distincta, cJ . \. 



round, the latter with slight white streak on extremity of median 

 nervure ; a rather indistinct and somewhat lunulate postmedial 

 line, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4, a series of points on the veins beyond it, 

 angled at vein 4 : an indistinct dark subterminal line, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, inwards in discal fold, and excurved at middle : a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with fuscous line through them. Hind 

 wing ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous except towards 

 costa and inner margin ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, postmedial 

 waved line or series of short streaks on the veins and terminal 

 series of points ; in male the underside of both wings with a golden 

 gloss except costal area of fore wing. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {Young), 1 S , Dharmsala (fffock- 

 ing), 3 c? , 2 2 , type exanthemata ; Sikhim. Exp. 38 millim. 



