COSMOPHILA. 411 



B. (Cosmophila). Antennce of male ciliated and with bristles or bipec- 

 tinated, the branches short and with bristles from their ends. 



2307. Cosmophila erosa, Hubn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii, 19, 



tigs. 287, 288. 



Cosmophila xanthiudyma, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Mad. 94, pi. 13, 

 fig. 7 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 155, tigs. 1. 1 a, b (larva) ; 



Cosmophila indica, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 396. 

 Cosmophila auragoides, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 397. 

 Cirroedia variolosa, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 750. 

 Cirrcedia edentata, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 750. 



J . Head and thorax orange-yellow, irrorated with brown ; 

 abdomen brown above. Fore wing fuscous, suffused with purple- 

 grey ; a large yellow patch irrorated with red occupying the whole 

 basal halt' of wing except the inner margin ; irregular ante- and 

 postmedial red lines meeting at inner margin, the latter produced 

 to an irregular angle beyond the lower angle of cell, then excurved 

 to its lower angle ; a white speck in cell ; a dentate submarginal 

 line, the area beyond it brown ; the cilia white at tips. Hind 

 wing dark fuscous ; the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore 

 wing with the costal and outer area pale, speckled with red; hind 

 wing pale, the costal area speckled with red. 



$ . Bright orange-yellow ; fore wing slightly red-speckled and 

 with slight purplish suffusion below the postmedial line ; the cilia 

 wiiite at tips. 



Larva. With three pairs of abdominal prolegs. Grass-green, 

 with dorsal and lateral series of minute white specks ; the prolegs 

 reddish. Food-plant Hibiscus. 



Hab. United States ; W. Indies ; S. Africa ; Madagascar ; 

 Mauritius ; throughout the Oriental region ; Australia. Esjt. 

 38 millim. 



SECT. II. (Thalatta}. Fore wing shorter, the outer margin less 

 oblique ; palpi with the 3rd joint very long. 



2308. Cosmophila precedens, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 996; C.$ S. no. -2-i:>->. 

 Thalatta modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 22 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 153, tigs. 5, 6 ; C.$ S. no. 2251. 

 Thalatta aibiorbis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 22 ; C. $ S. no. 2iMi>. 



Purplish red-brown. Fore wing with oblique slightly sinuous 

 antemedial line ; an almost straight postmedial line with ochreous 

 outer edge ; a sinuous submarginal series of dark or grey specks ; 

 a prominent white spot at centre of cell, absent in the form modesta. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hab. Mouhnein ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



2309. Cosmophila fasciosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 154, pi. 5, fig. 2 ; 



C. 8f IS. no. 2250. 



Differs from precedens in being darker with a purple suffusion. 



