METAPTYA,—VESTERMANNIA, 603 
7021. Metaptya endoplaga. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 27.) 
Metaptya endoplaga, Hmpsn, J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 655 (1907), 
3. Head white tinged with brown, the palpi blackish behind ; 
thorax and abdomen pale grey-brown, the crests tipped with black ; 
fore and mid tibie banded with blackish. Fore wing pale grey- 
brown with a slight reddish tinge; traces of a curved antemedial 
line with conical black patch on it at inner margin ; postmedial 
line whitish defined on inner side by brown, excurved from costa 
to vein 4, then oblique; some whitish points with slight black 
streaks between them on costa towards apex; a subterminal series 
of small somewhat dentate blackish marks, excurved below vein 7 
and at middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; traces 
of a dark postmedial line with blackish mark on it at inner 
margin; some black scaling in the fan at toruus; the underside 
whitish tinged with brown. 
Hab. Mannzas, Bellary, Ramandrug (Campbell), 1 g type. Eup. 
22 millim, 
Genus VESTERMANNIA. 
Type. 
Westermanmia, Hubn: Verz. p. 250 (1827) ......-.22<..0-0r-sc2e0s00-en- superba. 
IPTustodes 5 GUeN. NOC. 1 Pa GOO (LS02)iececeacces cere dece sess sess superba, 
Calymera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 104 (1882) ..........2.2.0502-0coecnoree- picta, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to about 
vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long or moderate; frons 
smooth ; eves large, round; antennz of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 
scales and hair mixed; the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests ; 
tibiz slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
the inner margin somewhat lobed before middle; veins 8 and 5 from near 
angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; abnormally with 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8; 11 from cell, Hind 
wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked; 5 fully developed from 
just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
A. Fore wing without transverse lines, 
a, Fore wing uniform silvery White ...........sssseccessseeees argentata, 
6, Fore wing whitish suffused with brown and with dark 
shade helowiCOstal area. .2c-caedcerccconsecaucavesdesesoney longiplaga. 
B. Fore wing with transverse lines. 
a, Fore wing without fiery red patch on postmedial area 
below costa. 
a', Fore wing without chocolate-brown cornucopia- 
shaped patch on terminal area. 
a*, Fore wing without chocolate-brown postmedial 
patch from costa to submedian fold. 
a®, Fore wing with silvery white patch on basal 
half from costa to vein 1 conjoined beyond the 
cell to a postmedial band........... ..sesseeeeeeeee argyroplaga, 
5°, Fore wing without silvery white basal patch 
conjoined to a postmedial band. 
a‘, Fore wing with the whole cell silvery white coxcha. 
