386 UMACODIDJE. 



Palpi not reaching beyond frontal tuft. AntennaB of male with 

 the distal half serrated, mid and hind tibiae with terminal pairs of 

 spurs. Fore wing with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing with 

 veins 6 and 7 on a short stalk or from cell. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with vein 10 from end of cell. 



853. Miresa albipuncta, Herr.-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. i, 

 fig. 179 ; C. # S. no. 1305 ; Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, pi. 14, 

 figs. 8 a-c (larva and pupa). 

 Miresa guttifera, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1124; C. 8f S. no. 1312. 



Head yellow ; thorax fulvous yellow ; abdomen ochreous 

 fulvous. Fore wing red-brown ; a silvery-white spot beyond the 

 lower angle of cell ; a faint silvery postmedial line. Hind wing 



Fig. 263. Miresa alUpuncta, 



ochreous. Underside ochreous; both xvin^s suffused with red- 

 brown towards the costa. 



The Burmese form has the thorax and fore wing rather darker. 



Larva green ; two pairs of dorsal and two of lateral spinous 

 tubercles at anterior and posterior ends, the dorsal pairs longest ; 

 a lateral brown line, beneath \vhk-h the colour is pale, with a series 

 of brown spots ; stigmata on a pale brown line. 



Hob. Throughout India and Ceylon. E.vp., 3 32-43, $ 46 

 millim. 



854. Miresa inornata, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1125; C. $S. no. 1313. 



Differs from albipuncta in the fore wing being duller red-brown ; 

 the white spot beyond the cell absent ; an indistinct submarginal 

 curved line. Hind wing darker. 



Hab. Japan; China; N.W. Himalayas; Nagas. Exp., 3 36, 

 5 50 millirn. 



855. Miresa argentifera, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1124 ; C. 8f S. no. 1306 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 129, figs. 1, 1 a (larva). 



Differs from albipuncta in the spot beyond the cell of the fore 

 wing being absent ; a broken ill-defined postmedial silvery line, 

 curved from the costa to vein 2, then straighter and more promi- 



