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hind margin of the fore-wings rounded instead of oblique, 

 and with a very large central ocellus. The under surface is 

 conspicuously spotted with white, and the front tibiae in the 

 males are furnished with a very large expansile tuft of soft hair, 

 a character found in many of the Quadrifidce, and even in our 

 own Catocala fraxini^ but which often escapes observation 

 because the tuft is not generally expanded; and as the 

 genus requires a new name, I have called it Crishna, in allusion 

 to the dark colour of the moths. 



CRISHNA MACROPS. 

 (Plates C XXX VI., CXXXVIL) 



Attacus macrops, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. iii. App. Anim. p. 225 

 (1768); Sparrman, Amcen. Acad. vii. p. 503, note k 

 (1769) ; Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. Taf. 22, fig. 2 (1776) ; Cramer, 

 Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 171, figs. A, B (1777). 



Noctua bubo, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 591, no. 3 (1775). 



Patula macrops, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lpid. Noct. iii. p. 177 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1300, 

 no. i (1858); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 145, pi. 164, 

 fig. 5 (1885). 



Nyctipao macrops, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. 

 p. 459 (1894). 



Var. (?) CRISHNA BOOPIS. 



Patula boopis, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lpid. Noct. iii. p. 178 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1301, 

 no. 2 (1858). 



Var. (?) CRISHNA WALKER I. 



Erebus bubo, Boisduval, Faune Madag. p. no (1833). 

 Patula walkeri, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi ; p. 406 (1875), 



