108 CASYAPA. 



" Male. Wings above dark brown slightly suffused with vinous. 

 Anterior wings tipped with ashy-white, and with three large semi-trans- 

 parent pale yellow quadrangular lustrous spots arranged as in E. thrax, 

 namely, one in the cell with its outer margin bifestooned, and its inner 

 biscalloped, another larger and elongated below and partly under this 

 between the first and second median veinlets, and a third, the smallest of 

 the three, rhomboidal, between the second and third median veinlets, and 

 with the cilia dusky at the apex, but gradually becoming pale yellow 

 towards the inner angle. Posterior wings darker towards the outer margin, 

 with all the cilia pale yellow. Wings below paler and duller, suffused 

 with purple on the disc, and ornamented especially on the medial area 

 of the posterior pair with scattered ochreous setiform scales. Antennae 

 black, with the straight portion of the club broadly and conspicuously 

 incompletely ringed with cretaceous-white, and the much shorter terminal 

 hooked portion red internally. Female, differs from the male only in its 

 larger size, and in not having the anterior wings tipped with ashy, nor 

 the antennae nearly so conspicuously ringed with white, c? 9 Eyes blood- 

 red. Palpi with the terminal joint rudimentary. 



Expanse: <f 2*26; 9 2-32 inches. 



Habitat : Andamans." (Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J.A.S. B., I. c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim (de Niceville). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS XXXVII. CASYAPA. 



Casyapa, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 576 (1871). 



Chatocneme,* Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss., Math. Nat. Cl., vol. xl, p. 46a 

 (1860). 



Casyapa, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 385 (1886). 



"In this genus the anterior wings are relatively somewhat shorter 

 and broader than in the preceding genera (viz., Baoris, Telicota, Satarupa), the 

 costal margin is slightly falcate at apex, the outer margin nearly straight ; 

 the upper disco-cellular nervule is shorter than the lower, which is 

 obliquely directed inwardly, and the base of the second median nervule 

 is a little more than twice as far apart from that of the lower as from that 

 of the upper median nervule. The posterior wings are subovate, the first 

 and second median nervules having an apparently common origin at 

 about end of cell. The body is robust and hairy, the palpi broad, thickly 

 clothed with somewhat short hairs and directed upwards and forwards 

 the antennae are of moderate length, with a well-thickened curved club, 

 which is not so strongly hooked as in Satarupa ; the posterior tibiae are 

 very prominently spined and clothed with very long hairs." (Distant, I. c.) 



* "This name was preoccupied by Chatocneme in Coleoptera and therefore the 

 genus was rightly renamed by Mr. Kirby." (Distant, I. c.) 



