SPICA. THTMISTADA. 343 



close together ; mid tibiae with one pair of spurs, hind tibiae with 

 two pairs. Fore wing with vein 6 from just above angle of cell ; 

 7 and 10 from the areole, 8 and 9 from end of it ; frenulum 

 present. 



742. Spica luteola, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 424, pi. 44, fig. 10. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 orange-yellow. Fore wing yellow, 

 irrorated with orange scales ; an 

 angled ferruginous antemedial 

 line ; an oblique postmedial line ; 

 reniform outlined with ferrugi- 

 nous ; a curved submarginal line : 



Fig. 233. Spica luteola, $. \. an oblique apical streak. Hind 



wing pale ochreous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus THYMISTADA. 



Thyinistada, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 515 (1865). 



Type, T. tripunctata, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi slender, upturned and reaching vertex of head ; proboscis 

 present. Antennae with the branches long in male. Mid tibia 

 with one pair of long spurs ; hind tibia with two pairs. Frenulum 

 present. Fore wing with the apex falcate and pointed ; outer margin 

 angled at vein 3 ; veins 6, 7, and 10 from the areole, which is 

 large and formed by the anastomosis of 8 and 9. Hind wing with 

 the inner margin deeply excised at anal angle. 



743. Thymistada tripunctata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 515; C. $ S. 



no. 1234. 

 Erosia cervinaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 646 ; C. $ S. no. 3052. 



Head red-brown ; thorax, abdomen, and fore wing dark pur- 

 plish brown ; the last with waved 

 dark antemedial, postmedial, and 

 submarginal lines, in some speci- 

 mens, with a few grey scales on 

 their outer edges ; three dark 

 specks on the discocellulars ; 

 costa and outer margin red- 

 brown ; cilia black, with pale 

 tips. Hind wing pale fuscous; 



nymisladat^iata, rf. }. a ** P atch , at . a " al al ?g le ' w " h 



a bent line of white scales on it ; 



cilia pale at apical area, black with pale tips towards anal 

 angle. 



