EUPTEEOTE. 



Alterata, from Sikhim ( rf 112 milliin.), is brighter yellow ; all 

 the markings indistinct, except the spots within the waved line of 

 the fore wing ; female brown. 



Fig. 35. Eupterotefabia, J. }. 



Fabia, from Madras ( 3 90 millim.), is chrome-yellow, the waved 

 lines of both wings obsolescent ; the inner postmedial line very 

 strongly marked, the spots below the costa of fore wing forming a 

 blotch ; hind wing with the waved outer line obsolete. 



Gyra, from Belgaum ( $ 102 millim.), has the spots towards 

 inner margin of fore wing and waved outer line of hind wing 

 present. 



Ochripicta=fasdata, from Ceylon ( rf 130, $ 116-130 millim.), 

 has the spots below the costa of fore wing separate ; in the female 

 the colour is mustard-yellow, the waved lines coming out very 

 strongly red-brown, or both wings may be almost wholly suffused 

 with bright chestnut, so as to obscure the markings ; head, thorax, 

 and abdomen yellowish brown. 



Larva of the form ocliripicta is dark purplish brown ; dorsal tufts 

 of long and short hair ; lateral and sublateral short tufts ; three 

 paired series of white dots on each somite ; a series of red sub- 

 dorsal spots on 5th to llth somites. 



Cocoon pale brown. 



Hab. Sikhim ; throughout N. and S. India ; Ceylon. Exp. 90- 

 130 millim. 



70. Eupterote mollifera, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 376 ; C. $ S. no. 1394. 

 Apha flava, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 359; C. % S. no. 1341. 

 Tagora anthereata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 512. 



