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Palpi porrect and hairy; abdomen with lateral tufts of hair 

 and two large terminal tufts. Fore wing with the inner margin 

 more or less lobed and excised ; a large tuft of scales on the lobe, 

 and a tuft at outer angle ; vein 6 from the angle of cell ; 9 and 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. Hind wing with veins 6 

 and 7 on a short stalk ; 8 running close along 7 to towards the 

 end of cell. 



SECT. I (Spat alia). Antennae of male with the branches short 

 and stiff. 



307. Spatalia argentifera, Wlk. J&urn. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 140. 

 Celeia plusiata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 463 ; C. fy S. no. 1156. 

 Celeia sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 63 ; C. Sf S. no. 1157. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale and dark brown. Fore 

 wing pale brown, with some dark and red-brown suffusion below 



Fig. 105. Spatalia argentifera, $ . \. 



the median nervure near the base ; a silver streak along the median 

 nervure from below the middle of the cell to lower angle, with a 

 spot beyond it, and sending spurs outwards along veins 2 and 3, 

 which may be separated into spots ; some dark brown suffusion at 

 apex and middle of outer margin ; an ill-defined dark or red-brown 

 submarginal line. Hind wing fuscous. 



Some specimens have the head, thorax, and fore wing very much 

 darker. 



In the form argentifer a = plusiata from Canara and Borneo the 

 silver streak is broad ; sikkima is darker, with the streak narrow. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Canara ; Bangalore ; Borneo. Exp. 50-54 millim. 



308. Spatalia gemmifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 62, pi. iii, fig. 14; 

 C. $ S. no. 1203. 



c? . Head and thorax chestnut-brown ; abdomen pale sienna- 

 brown ; a small silvery white spot below the base of the cell and a 

 large triangular spot at origin of vein 2 ; a dark brown streak from 

 the lower angle of cell to outer margin below apex ; some black 

 dots near apex ; a submarginal series of pale spots ; the tuft on 

 inner margin black. Hind wing pale sienna-brown. 



Hab. Sikhim. ^Exp. 50 millim. 



