CALAMIA. Cr-ETHRORASA. 



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afrest; small black piiiferous dots normal, i he 4th series behind 

 the spiracles, the 5th and 6th series anteriorly and posteriorly on 

 subyentral space, and series 7 on the ventra*^! surface of apodal 

 somites very small ; dorsum olive-grey with a broad yellow dorsal 

 stripe broken up into two round spots on each segment, the anterior 

 being twice indented or nearly bisected, the stripe narrower and 

 somewhat confused towards extremities ; an interrupted whitish 

 subdorsal stripe edged with black, a lateral blue-grey stripe and 

 broad yellow stigmatal stripe defined a})ove by a waved black line ; 

 ventral surface blue-grey streaked with black ; feet yellowish ; 

 spiracles black ; or the dorsal and lateral areas blue-grey irrorated 

 with black streaks, the dorsal and subdorsal stripes edged with 

 black. Food-plant, Sambucus. 

 Cocoon thick, formed of silk. 



Genus CLETHRORASA, nov. 



Type, C. ■pilcheri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint smoothly scaled 

 and flattened against frons, the ord short ; frons smooth ; eyes large," round ; 

 antennaj of male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen with doi-sal crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing narrow, the margins subparallel, the apes 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenidate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discoeellulars ; (i, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4782. Clethrorasa pilcheri. 



Leocijma pilch/iri, Hmpsn Moths Ind. iv. p. 512 (189G). 



6 . Head and thorax white ; palpi and lower part of frons black 

 with a few white scales ; antennae black except basal joint ; teguliB 

 at tips, pro- and mesothorax wifh paired metallic blue-black 

 patches; pectus and legs black-brown with a purplish tinge, the 

 coxa) with some white hair, the til)i;e and tarsi banded with white ; 

 abdomen brown with some greyish hair at base, the dorsal crests 





Fig. 157. — Clethrorasa pilcheri, (^ . \. 



cupreous red. Fore wing white with deep metallic green spots 

 and patches ; basal and subbasal patches on costa and a small 

 round subbasal spot below vein 1 ; an antemedial patch on costa 

 and a bar from submedian fold to inner margin ; orbicular 

 represented by a small round spot, the reiiitbrm by a conical patch 



