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Genus CRICULA. 



Oricula, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1186 (1855). 



Euphranor, Her.-SchSff. Samml aus. Eur. Schmet. p. 61 (1858). 



Type, C. trifenestrata, Helf. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. 



Fore wing with the costa evenly arched ; apex rather acute ; 

 outer margin highly excised ; veins 5 and 6 given off from the sub- 

 costal much nearer the base. Hind wing rounded; veins 5 and 6 

 given off from the subcostal towards the base. 



30. Cricula trifenestrata, Heifer, J. A. S. B. vi, p. 45 : Her.-Schiijf. 

 Samml. ans. Eur. Schmet. pi. 17, fig. 80 ; C. 8f S. no. 1354 ; Moore, 

 Lep. E. I. Co. pi. xviii, fig. 7 a, b (larva and cocoon). 

 Cricula burmana, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 198. 



c? Brown, ochreous, yellowish, or reddish. Fore wing with a 

 waved antemedial dark line ; a small hyaline spot beyond the end 

 of the cell, with one or two others above it, the upper one generally 



Fig. 14. Cricula trifenestrata, rf. j. 



represented by a dark spot ; an oblique line from the apex to the 

 inner margin beyond the middle, the area beyond it suffused with 

 grey. Hind wing with the oblique line continued to the inner margin 

 before the middle ; a hyaline spot beyond the cell ; a submarginal 

 waved line. Underside with the basal area suffused with purple. 



2 - Generally redder ; three large irregularly shaped hyaline 

 spots beyond the cell of the fore wing, often with one or two small 

 ones inside them. 



Larva black-brown ; 2nd to llth somites each with six setiferous 

 tubercles ; 1st somite and anal claspers crimson ; a pale reddish 

 sublateral stripe ; legs and prolegs brown. 



Cocoon composed of bright golden-yellow silk firmly united into 

 a network ; a race from the Karen Hills spins a solid cocoon. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; Java, 

 cj 62-82, 72-92 millim. 



