APHA. 51 



Genus APHA. 



Apha, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1180 (1855). 



Prismosticta, Butt. A. M. N. H. (5) vi ; p. 67 (1880). 



Type, A. subdives, "Wlk. 



Range. Japan ; Sikhim ; Assam. 



Palpi upturned and slightly fringed with hair. Antennae with 

 the branches short. Fore wing with the apex acute and produced ; 

 the discocellulars nearly straight ; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing 

 with the upper discocellular oblique ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 curved 

 and remote from 7. 



SECT. I. {Apha). Pore wing with vein 8 given off far before 

 the apex ; 10 absent. 



62. Apha subdives, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1180 ; Butt. III. Het.v, pi. 94, 

 figs. 7, 8 ; (?. & no. 1344. 



cJ. Head vinous red-brown; thorax and abdomen purplish 

 brown. Wings brownish ochreous. Fore wing with a purplish 

 patch on the costa near the base ; about four very indistinct ante- 

 medial waved lines ; a speck at end of cell ; four or five much 

 waved indistinct postinedial lines approaching the antemedial lines 

 below the cell ; a very oblique dark and yellow line acutely angled 



Fig. 33. Apha subdives, <5 . \. 



below the apex and irregularly waved below the costa ; outer area 

 yellow, with two waved submarginal lines. Hind wing with traces 

 of antemedial waved lines ; an oblique medial line ; a doubly den- 

 tate submarginal line formed like a series of the letter " "WV* 

 Underside much more brilliantly coloured. 



2 . Paler and yellower. 



Hal. Khasis ; Sylhet ; JNagas. Exp., <S 72, $ 86 millim. 



