178 CYMATOPHOBIDjE. 



Genus HABROSYNE. 

 Habrosyne, Hiibn. Verz. p. 236 (1816). 



Type, H. derasa, Linn. 



Range. N. America ; Europe ; Japan ; Himalayas. 



Palpi porrect, the first two joints heavily scaled, the third short 

 and naked. Antennae with the joints rather broad and flattened ; 

 collar and patagia thickly fringed with hair ; terminal segments of 

 abdomen with thick lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing with a tuft 

 of scales at outer angle ; vein 6 from angle of cell ; 7 and 8 

 stalked; 9 and 10 stalked, and almost anastomosing with 7 and 8 

 to form a short areole. Hind wing with vein 5 from near lower 

 angle of cell. 



324. Habrosyne derasa, Linn. Syst. Nak. i, p. 851 ; Buckler, Larva 



Brit. Butt. Moths, pi. 54, fig. 1 (larva). 

 Habrosyne fraterna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 406 ; Butl. III. Het. 



vii, pi. 125, fig. 11 ; C. Sf S. no. 16:>'.t A. 

 Gonophora indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 44 ; Waterh. Aid, i, 



pi. 9. 



Head and thorax golden brown, the collar with fine dark lines ; 

 abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing silvery grey ; a large golden- 

 brown triangular patch from the costa near base and at apex to 



Fig. 111. Habrosyne dcrasa, c?. }. 



inner margin near outer angle, bordered inwardly by a white line 

 which sends a tooth obliquely towards the base ; a whitish streak 

 along the costa crossed by some waved brown lines ; small black 

 striae towards the apex ; orbicular and reniform spots with pale 

 outline ; an extremely undulated quadruple postmedial line from 

 vein 6 to near inner margin ; a slightly curved or almost straight 

 submarginal pale band ; a waved marginal pale line ; cilia pale, 

 with a dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous. 



The form indica, from Sikhim, is rather larger and brighter, 

 whilst fraterna, from Dharmsala, is slightly greyer than the 

 European derasa. 



Larva reddish brown ; a dark dorsal line ; subdorsal round 



