204 >otrui).t;. 



2400. Dichonia obliqiusigna. (IMatc CI 11. fig. 17.) 

 Polia Miqumitna, Ilmivm. J. Bomb. Soc. sir. p. 2f>2 (1902). 



Head nnil thorns proy mixed witli wliite and fuscous, frona with 

 black bar ; teguUe with'black mi-diul line defined by whilihh bthind; 

 patapia whiti.sh edped with black ; tarsi riiiped with black ; abdomen 

 grey irroratvd with fuscous. Fore winp prey si)arsely irrnrated 

 with black and sliphtly t inped with olive ochreous in parts, especially 

 on medial area ; a slipht black streak ])clow base of cell ; subbasal 

 line iiidisfiiictly double filled in with white, curved, from costa to 

 Bubinedian fold ; antemcdial line indistinctly double, obIi(|Ucly 

 curved and minutely waved ; claviform defined by black, acute at 

 extremity with a bidentate white patch beyond it and black streak 

 from it to jwstmedial line; orbicular and reniform larpe, defined by 

 black except above, the former white, oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with slipht ])ale annulus ; an irregular medial line bent outwards 

 round the white patch below cell; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and pro- 

 duced to black and white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line grey sliphtly defined by black on inner side below 

 costa, then on outer side and on both sides in submedian interspace, 

 anpled outwards at vein 7, sliphtly dentate at veins 4,3 and anpled 

 inwards in submedian interspace, sonic black streaks beyond it in 

 the interppaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey 

 with black lines through them. Hind wing whitish nearly uniformly 

 suffused with grey-brown; a dark terminal line; cilia white with 

 a brown line through them : the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (PilcJier), 1 $ type, Dharmsala (Jloding), 

 1 (J . Exji. 40 millim. 



Larva, (xreen w ith some irregular whitish markings ; a slight 

 pale dorsal line; head brownish ; prothoracic shield brown. Food- 

 plant, Oak. '). 



Sect 1 1. Antennae of male nearly simple. 



24G1. Dichonia areola. 



.lioctw areola, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 141. f. 4 (1789) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. >'l2. 

 lochia lithorhiza, Bork. Eur. Scliniptt. iv. p. a:t9 (1792); Tr.'it. Eur. 



Schmett. v. 3. p. 6(5 ; Dup. U\>. Fr. vii. p. 191, pi. 1 12. f. 4 ; Frr. Bi-itr. 



pi. 7U. f. 2; id. Neuc Beitr. v. i>l. 4liO; Steph. 111. BriU Ent., llnnst. ii. 



p. 187; Mill. Icoue.s. pi. 104. f. 1. 

 JVV/i/rt oprr,<M, Ihibn. Eur. Sclunett., Noct. f. 398 (1827); Geycr, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. 11'. 7t»4-.'^i. 



Head and thorax clothed with brownish-grey and fuscous scales 

 and hair; palpi streaked with black at sides; frons with black bar; 

 vertex of head with tin' crest black ; topula* with strong black lino 

 at base and slipht medial line ; abdDiuen prey mixed with Itrown, 

 the lateral frinpes tinged with i)urplish pink. Fore wing brownish 

 grey slightly irrorated with black, the disk tinged with fuscoua ; 



