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ARCTIID;E. 



SECT. II. Fore wing \vith vein 10 present. 

 1494. Chamaita nympha, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 536, pi. 211, fig-. 11. 



. Differs from neuropteroides in having a fulvous spot at 

 centre of cell of fore wing. 



Hob. Cevlon, 



Fig. 81. Chamaitanympha, 5- T- 

 Krp. 18 uiillim. 



Genus CACYPARIS. 



Cacyparis, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1572 (18(52). 

 Ballatha, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1214 (1865). 



Type, C. insolitata, "Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon ; Solomons. 



Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint very long, slender, and knobbed 

 at the end. Antenna fasciculate in male. Fore wing broad, the 

 apex acute; veins 3, 4, 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 arising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above the angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle; 8 from before middle 

 of cell. 



1495. Cacyparis insolitata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1572; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii. pi. 198, figs. 5, 5 a ; C. $ S. no. 3547. 

 Ballatha atrotumens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1215. 



Head and thorax purplish grey. Fore wing purplish grey, the 

 basal area suffused with silver scales and bounded by an ill-defined 



silvery band ; a silver band on 

 discocellulars ; a postinedial 

 curved silver band with a spot 

 of raised shining black scales on 

 the inner margin just witlrin it ; 

 an oval black subapical spot 

 ringed with ochreous and bi- 

 sected by an ochreous line, with 

 p. g an oblique silver line from the 



Cacyparis insolitata, 3 . j-. costa to its inner edge; cilia 



silvery. Hind wing ochreous, 



suffused with fuscous, except the costal area. Abdomen yellow, 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon, Step., d 32, $ 36 millim. 



