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ARIOLICA.—CBERALA, 489 
termen at diseal fold; cilia black towards apex, then orange with 
blackish spots. Hind wing pure white. Underside of fore wing 
white with some fuscous beyond upper angle of cell. 
Hab. Stxuim; Buurky; Assam, Khisis,1d¢,12 type. xp. 
32 millim. 
6843, Ariolica argentea. (Plate CLXXXVL. fig. 32.) 
Chionomera argentea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1881, p. 18; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 
Het. p. 284. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen pute white; palpi, frons, antenne, 
and legs tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery white; a subbasal 
orange spot on costa; an antemedial orange band, expanding at 
costa and slightly defined on outer edge by black; aslightly curved 
orange band from costa beyond middle to tornus, expanding into 
a large triangular patch at costa on which it encloses a white spot, 
the band edged with black; an orange terminal band from apex to 
submedian fold, defined on inner side by black; cilia tinged with 
yellow except towards tornus. Hind wing silvery white. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete and only 
faintly traceable. 
Hab. Javan, Nikko (Maries, Lewis, Ito), 13, 29 , Tokio (Fenton), 
1 6,1 9, Yokohama (Pryer, Manley, Bristowe), 4 3,5 9 type. 
Kep. 28-32 millim. 
Genus CERALA. 
Type. 
Kerala, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 329 ....... i Patina nieaiecisncleiaen meee punctilineala, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 
vertex of head and moderately scaled, the drd moderate; frons smooth with 
tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antenne of male ciliated, a ridge of scales 
between their bases ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax 
without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiz smoothly scaled ; 
abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rect- 
angular, the termen slightly excised at discal fold and at tornus, not crenulate ; 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 9 and 10 anas- 
tomosing with 8 to form a moderate areole; 6 from the areole; 11 from cell ; 
small tufts of raised scales at middle of cell and on discocellulars, Hind 
wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 fully developed from below middle of disco- 
cellulars ; 6,7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near, middle; the upper 
and undersides in male clothed with androconia except the costal and terminal 
areas; the retinaculum of male formed by a tuft of hair from below median 
nervure, 
A. Fore wing with the postmedial and subterminal lines not 
closely approximated, the former bent outwards above 
inner margin. 
a. Fore wing wholly suffused with olive-green and without 
dark shade before subterminal line ...... Seat aouaseo08 punctilineata, 
b. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with olive-green on 
inner half and with purplish shade before subterminal 
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