380 xocTCin.i;, 



Cicnus ATHAUMASTA nov. 



Thaumasfn, Stand. Cat. Lcp. Eur. p. 70 (1871). non descr. noc Type 

 Gistl. Crust. 1848 expressa. 



Probofic-is fully dovolojiod ; palpi obliquoly uplurned, tlie '2nd joint fringed 

 •witli hair in front, tlio ."ird short; frons Huootli ; eyes large, rounded ; head 

 and thorax clothed chietly with scale.";, the pro- and inetnfhorax with spreading 

 crests ; pectus and tibia' clothed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the ajicx rectangular, the terinen 

 crenulate ; veins .S and .') from near angle of cell ; 5 from upper angle ; It from 

 lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 Teins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from just below middle of ditco- 

 cellulars, 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectiuate with moderate branches to apex. 



A. Fore wing variegated with yellow expressa. 



B. Fore wing not variegated with yellow siderigera. 



2559. Athaumasta expressa. 



Eumichiis expressa, Led. Verb. z.-b. Wien, 1855, p. 109, pi. 1. f. 8 ; llerr.- 



Schiiff. Neue Schmett. f. 63 ; ^taud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 108. 

 Tkaumasta ochracca, Stand. Stctt. cnt. Zeit. 1881, p. 41U. 

 Thaiimasta nana, Stand. Iris, ix. p. Ii41 (I89(j). 



c^ . Head and thorax orange mixed with whitish and black 

 scales ; vertex of head and inetathorax -with pairs of bhick spots ; 

 tegula) with bhick band near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with whitish, the aual tuft aud 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing greyish white tinged in parts 

 with orange and irrorated with black ; subbasal line double at costa. 



Fig. 123. — Athatimasta expressa, (^ . {. 



then single, waved, from costa to submcdian fold ; antemedial line 

 black defined l)y white on inner side, excurved in submcdian inter- 

 space and angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform 

 indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with orange 

 centres and white annul! defined by black, the former rounded, op(^n 

 above ; a waved medial line strongly excurved in cell ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white point.s beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a curved scries of whitish 

 lunules defined bv dentate black marks on inner side ; a terminal 



