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Genus CISPIA. 



Cispia, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 867 (1855). 

 Caltura, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 401. 



Type, 0. punctifascia, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam : Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint long and fringed with hair, the 3rd 

 minute ; or the palpi rarely minute. Antennae bipectinate in both 

 sexes, the branches long. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from close 

 to angle of cell : 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 1 stalked, 1 being 

 given off from nearer the cell or from the same point as 7. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle, 5 from above it. 



SECT. I. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Hind wing with 

 veins 6 and 7 from cell. 



1125. Cispia punctifascia, Jf '//>. Cat. iv, p. 867 ; Moore, L<>i>. ('<>/(. ii, 

 pi. 113, fig. 3; C. Sf S. no. 92(5. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange. Antennae black, the shaft 

 white at sides ; collar, thorax, and tegulae black spotted ; abdomen 



Fig. 327. Cispia, punctifascia, tf . J. 



with a lateral series of black spots ; legs marked with black. Fore 

 wing brownish orange, the veins pale yellow ; two black subhas-il 

 spots; an orange medial band edged by red-brown striga) in the 

 interspaces, with a pale line outside them. Hind wing orange, 

 with a curved postmedial maculate band from the costa to vein 2 

 on underside. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Ceylon. Exp., <$ 50, $ 70 millim. 



1126. Cispia venosa, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, 1862, p. 264 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 928. 



Differs from punctifascia in being bright orange. Fore wing 

 bright orange, the baud broader and the strigae edging it only 

 slightly darker than the ground-colour. Underside of both wings 

 with a fuscous maculate band, the apex of fore wing fuscous. 



Hal}. Sikhim. Exp. 70 millim. 



