VESTERMANNIA, 607 
area red-brown ; a conical red-brown patch in end of cell defined 
by white and separated by a white discoidal line from a semicircular 
spot beyond the cell, and by a streak on median nervure from a 
conical patch below the cell,a black point on the lower edge of the 
spot beyond the cell; postmedial line fine, white, oblique from 
costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique from vein 5 to 2 below which it 
is angled outwards, then incurved, slight purplish white suffusion 
beyond it from costa to vein 5; a very indistinct whitish sub- 
terminal line defined on outer side by slight blackish marks at 
middle, incurved below costa, then minutely waved and angled 
Sey 
Fig. 244,.—Vestermannia superba, §. } 
inwards in submedian fold; a terminal series of blackish points. 
Hind wing semibyaline white tinged with brown, the veins and 
terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside brownish white 
with terminal brown band from vein 7 to submedian fold, 
Hab. “Inpia,” 1 $,1 2 3 Siku (Fotheringham),1 9; Bownay, 
Kanara, 1 3; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 9; Travancorn, 
Pirmad (Imray), 1 Q ; Crrton (Lindesay), 1 $,1 9; ANDAMANS, 
1 Q; Srysarore (Ridley), 1 9; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 3; 
Java. Hap. 34-40 millim. 
Larva. Pale olive-green thickly spotted with yellow; a yellow 
dorsal line; sides of head with small red streaks. Food-plant: 
Terminalia. 
7028. Vestermannia argentea. 
Westermannia argentea, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. viii. p. 80, pl. 146. Ff. 19 
(1891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 359. 
Head purple-white, the palpi black behind and brownish at 
extremity of 2nd joint; frons with blackish lateral bars; abdomen 
blackish except towards base; tegule and patagia creamy white, 
the former with diffused red-brown band; dorsum of thorax 
fuscous brown, the metathorax white; pectus and legs white, the 
fore femora above and tibiz on inner side fuscous; abdomen white 
dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing brilliant silvery 
brown, faintly suffused with purplish white to the postmedial line 
leaving a large elliptical patch of the ground-colour faintly defined 
by white in and beyond end of cell and only separated from an 
oblique patch on inner area by a slight white streak on median 
nervure ; the area below vein | pure white to the postmedial line, 
which is slight, white, oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly 
