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204. HANTANA INFERNUS, FELDER. 



Eudamus infernus, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1868, p. 283. 



Hantana infernus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i,p. 179, pi. 68, fig. 6 (1881). 



" Male and female. Upperside dark purplish-brown ; forewing with 

 two, sometimes three, very small golden-yellow semi-diaphanous costal 

 spots before the apex, a single but less distinct spot near the upper end of 

 the cell, and in the female a similar costal spot above it. Underside slightly 

 paler : golden-yellow spots on forewing brighter : hindwing with a very 

 indistinct golden-yellow spot within the cell, one also at its end, and a 

 series across the disc, all formed by golden-yellow scales. Head and palpi 

 with lateral golden-yellow streak ; front of head and palpi speckled with 

 golden-yellow. 



Expanse: ^ i|-; 9 J i inches." (Moore, I. c.) 



Recorded from Ceylon (Wade, Mack wood, Hutchison). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS XLVIII. ASTICTOPTERUS. 



Astictopterus, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 401 (1860). 



Astictopterus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 162 (1881). 



Astictopterus, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 401 (1886). 



"Forewing elongated; exterior margin short, slightly oblique and 

 convex, posterior margin long; cell broad, extending two-thirds the wing; 

 first subcostal at nearly one-half before end of the cell, first, second, and 

 third branches wide apart ; disco-cellulars very slender and very oblique, 

 upper bent inward, lower shortest ; upper radial from the angle, lower from 

 their middle ; the middle median at one-sixth and lower at three-sixths 

 before end of the cell ; hindwing broadly oval ; cell extending half the 

 wing ; disco-cellulars erect ; radial very slender ; second subcostal at one- 

 sixth before end of the cell ; middle median from close to end, and lower at 

 nearly one half before end of cell. Body long, slender; palpi lax, 

 terminal joint short, pointed ; legs comparatively naked ; antennae with 

 slender pointed club. 



Type: A. jama." (Moore, I.e.) 



205. -ASTICTOPTERUS XANITES, BUTLER. 



Astictopterus xanites, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 510. 

 .Astictopterus xanites, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 402, pi. 34, fig. 28 

 (1886). 



" Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wings with a sanguineous 

 transverse fascia not reaching costal or inner margin and crossing wing at 

 end of cell. Wings beneath as above, but the transverse fascia to the 

 anterior wings broader and paler than above and approaching nearer to the 

 costal margin. Body and legs dark fuscous. 



