156 NOTODONTID.E. 



The palest and smallest form ( 3 46 millim.) is from Madras, in 

 which all the black markings are slender ; the hind wing pure 

 white with small marginal black specks ; liturata (62 milliin.) has 



Fig. 94. Centra liturata, 



the black ring-mark round the discocellular line of the fore 

 incomplete, the hind wing slightly suffused with fuscous, except at 

 base; wisei ( 90 milliin.) has the antemedial band of the fore 

 wing wider, the ring round the discocellular line complete, the 

 hind wing wholly, but slightly, suffused with black; <l<imt><lnr>i (7<> 

 millim.), from China and Bengal, has the abdomen almost wholly 

 black, the black ring-mark of fore winij sometimes filled in with 

 black ; IcHmlii'id* from Ceylon (GO milliin.), is again rather darker, 

 the hind wing beinij blacker. 



lldl>. China; ISikhim ; Assam; Bombay; Madras; Cevlon. 

 h\q>., 3 46-70, $ 62-90 millim. 



277. Cerura prasana, M<><>rc, 1\ Z. s. 1865, p. 812; a $ S. no. l IL'.">. 



cJ . Differs from liturata in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 white, with hardly a trace of black markings ; the terminal seg- 

 ments of abdomen black with a white anal tuft. Tore wing wiih 

 pale centres to the ante- and post medial bands, the latter inter- 

 rupted at middle ; some black strigrc from costa, and minute specks 

 near base ; the dentate lines absent. 



Hab. N.E. Bengal. />/>. 40 millim. 



Genus DAMATA. 

 Damata, 7J7A-. Cat. v, p. 1044 (1855).; 



Type, D. lonc/ipennis, Wlk. 



Jiaiu/e. Sikhim ; JSTaga Hills ; Cambodia. 



Palpi porrect and hairy. Antennae with the branches very long 

 and ceasing abruptly one-fourth from apex. Fore wing long and 

 narrow ; vein 5 from just below the angle of cell ; 6 and 10 from 

 end of areole, which is formed by 9 anastomosing with 7 and 8. 

 Hind wing with vein 5 from near upper angle of cell ; 6 and 7 

 stalked ; 8 running close along 7 to towards the end of cell. 



