180 CTMATOPHOKID^E. 



on costa with white inner edges ; the waved lines as in derasa. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim.' 



Genus THYATIRA. 

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



Type, T. batis, Linn. 



Range. Europe ; Palaearctic Asia ; Himalayas ; Borneo ; Java. 



Palpi upturned, the first two joints heavily fringed with hair, 

 the third joint of moderate length and naked ; antenna} ciliated ; 

 collar and patagia fringed with long hair; third segment of 

 abdomen with a tuft of dark scales. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded ; thickly scaled ; vein 6 from the angle of cell ; 9 and 10 

 stalked, and almost anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form a short 

 areole. Hind wing with vein 5 from near the lower angle of 

 cell. 



329. Thyatira batlS, Linn. fii/*f. Xaf. i, p. 836; Buckler, Larva Brit. 



lintt. Moths, pi. r,4, fig. 2 ; C.Sr S. no. Kc'l. 

 Thyatira cmrnata, M<>>-<', 1'. Z. S. 1888, p. 40(1; Butl. III. llct. vii. 



pL I:*"), tiir. 1-?. 

 Thyatira decorata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 3i>8, pi. 37, fig. 1 ; 



a cV.v. n<. n;i>->. 



Thyatira vicina, (iucn. Noct. i, p. 13. 



and thorax pinkish white, with fine brown lines. Fore 

 brown ; a large basal pink patch with two brown spots on 

 it towards inner margin, and bordered by a black line; two pinki-h 



Fig. 112. Thyatira batis, tf. }. 



patches below the costa towards apex, one on inner margin, and a 

 larger one with brown centre at outer angle, with a small spot on 

 the margin above it; some waved medial and postrnedial lines. 

 Hind wing and abdomen fuscous. 



The variety coynata is without the pink patch on inner margin 

 of fore wing, and has a waved marginal black line ; decorata, from 

 Sikhim, has an extra pinkish spot in the cell of the fore wing, a 

 smaller one beyond, and a more complete marginal series ; the 



