LIPAEOPSIS. CERURA. 155 



scales, and continued along the costa to the apex, an indistinct 

 double waved post-medial line ; the outer area from vein 4 to outer 

 angle suffused with red-brown. Hind wing pure white. 



Fig. 93. Liparopsis postalbida, tf . T . 



Hal. Naga Hills, 6000 feet (DoJierty). Exp. 38 inillim. Type 

 in coll. Elvves. 



Genus CERTJRA. 



Cerura, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2 Abth. p. 155 (1802). 

 Harpyia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iii, p. 19 (1810). 



Type, C. furcula, Schr., from Europe. 



Range. N. America ; Europe ; China ; throughout India and 

 Ceylon. 



Palpi slight and porrect ; antennae with the branches long and 

 reaching the apex. Legs hairy. Fore wing broad ; veins 6 and 

 10 given off from end of areole, which is short and formed by 9 

 anastomosing with 8. Hind wing with veins 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 

 running close along 7 to near the end of the cell. 



276. Cerura liturata, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 988 ; Butl III. Het. vi, pi. 106, 



fig. 7; C. $ S. no. 1127. 



Cerura damodara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 812 ; C. 8? S. no. 1123. 

 Harpyia kandyia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 108, pi. 120, figs. 1, 1 a 



(larva and pupa) ; C. 8f S. no. 1126. 

 Harpyia wisei, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 139, pi. viii, figr. 3. 



Pure white; palpi black; collar, tegulse, and thorax spotted 

 with black; abdomen either banded or almost completely suffused 

 with black, leaving a white patch with a black semicircular mark on 

 the last segment. Fore wing with two waved subbasal lines from 

 the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median 

 nervure : a highly waved antemedial band ; a waved medial line ; 

 a black line on discocellulars surrounded by a black ring-mark ; 

 three waved postmedial lines ; the last with some black spots be- 

 yond it ; a marginal and cilial series of black spots. Hind wing 

 more or less suffused with fuscous ; two indistinct medial lines 

 and a series of marginal black spots. 



