WESTERMAITNIA. 359 



Palpi slender and closely appressed to the frons ; the 3rd joint 

 naked and reaching just above vertex of head ; antennae of male 

 almost simple; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; tibiaB not 

 hairy and without spines. Fore wing with the apex nearly 

 rectangular. Hind wing with vein 5 from below centre of disco- 

 cellulars. 



2177. Westermannia superba, Htibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Sckmett. 



p. 23, figs. 323, 324 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 154, figs. 1, 1 a 

 (larva); C. $ S. no. ,2150. 

 Plusiodes westermannii, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 386. 



Head pure white ; thorax and ab- 

 domen yellowish white. Fore wing pale 

 silvery brown ; the basal costal area and 

 a broad postmedial curved band white, 

 these two white areas being conjoined 

 at costa, and by the discocellulars and 

 median nervure being white. Hind 

 Fig. 1$ 2.- Westermannia wi le? suffused with f uscous towards 



S1t7)1 OCt. o T. 



outer margin. 



Larva. Pale olive-green, thickly spotted with yellow ; a yellow 

 dorsal line on each segment ; genae with a small red streak. Food- 

 plant, Terminalia. 



Hob. W. and S. India ; Ceylon ; Java. Exp. 36 millim. 



2178. Westermannia argentea, Hmpsn. 111. Ret. viii, p. 80, pi. 146, 



fig. 19. 



Differs from superba in the tegulse and metathorax being white. 

 Fore wing bright silvery grey, with a broad white fascia on inner 

 basal area ; the disk tinged with gold. Hind wing opalescent 

 white, fuscous towards outer margin. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 50 millim. 



2179. Westermannia triangularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 605 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 2151. 



Head and thorax white ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing white, 

 with a medial fuscous band from median nervure to inner margin, 

 with a diffused fuscous streak from it to base along median 

 nervure ; the outer area coppery brown, with the margin blue-grey. 

 Hind wing white, fuscous towards outer margin. 



Hab. Assam ; Andamans. Exp. 36 millim. 



2180. Westermannia cornucopia, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 61, pi. 141, 



fig. 12. 



$ . Pale brown ; head and thorax with black tips to the scales. 

 Fore wing with a large chocolate cornucopia-shaped mark from 

 the outer margin to centre of inner margin, some white on its 

 inner edge, two fine silvery lines on the discocellulars, and a fine 



