APSARASA. MAZrCA. 34' 



4786. Apsarasa figiirata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 32.) 



Apsaram. figurata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1<S77, p. 604 ; Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 290. 



2 . Head aud tliorax blue-black ; palpi with white spot on basal 

 joint in front ; frons with yellowish-white patch above ; vertex of 

 head and tegiilae at middle and tips with yellowish-white bands ; 

 pro- and mesothorax Avith yellowish spots and nietathorax with 

 yi'llowish patch ; coxsc". with white patches ; femora at extremities, 

 tilnse and tarsi with white bands ; abdomen black-brown tinged 

 with metallic blue, the two basal se^'ments with yellowish-white 

 dorsal spots. Pore wing blue-black, the costal, terminal, and inner 

 areas with yellowish-white patches leaving radiating blue-black 

 bars and streaks ; the costal area with three small yellowish-white 

 spots on basal area followed by an oblique striga, then an erect 

 striga, an irregular medial ])atch, a slight bar above end of cell 

 followed by a striga, a triangular patch towards apex followed by 

 an oblique bar and triangular patch at apex ; the terminal area 

 with two short obliijue streaks towards apex with point before the 

 upper one, a minute streak at vein 5 and four obliijue triangular 

 patches between vein 4 and tornus ; the inner area with small tri- 

 angular antemedial spot followed by a striga, a broad medial band 

 from submcdian fold to inner margin extending to just above the 

 fold at extremity, followed by a wedge-sha[)ed spot, then a narrow 

 bar and wedge-shaped spot towards tornus : a yellowish- white 

 point at middle of cell and another at itpper angle. Hind wing 

 black-brown with some white on termen between vein 4 and tornus, 

 its inner edge very irregular and angled inwards below veins 4, 3, 

 2 ; cilia brown towards apex intersected bv a slight white streak 

 at vein (i and with slight dark marks below veins 4 and 3 ; the 

 underside with antemedial white spot on costa, slight streak in base 

 of cell, some whitish below base of cell, faint medial band from 

 costa to discal fold, slight postinedial spots below costa and vein 8, 

 two short subapical streaks and slender elongate streaks above and 

 below discal fold. 



Hah. Andamans, 4 5 type. Exp, 46-50 millim. 



Genus MAZUCA. t. 



Type. 



Mazuca, Wlk. xxxv. 1777(1866) strigicincta. 



Mila, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. xiii. p. 187 (1892) sirigicincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptiu-ned, smootbly scaled, the 2ad joint 

 reaching about to middle of fr(jns, the ord short ; frons with large somewhat 

 conical prominence produced to a slight point in front; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male laminate, ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scides 

 and without crests; tibias slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not creiiulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins '6, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 ■Tilr. 



