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the reniforui a narrow lunule with a vinous dash beyond it ; a 

 crenulate postmedial line with three medial black lunules on it 

 and one towards inner margin, and joined by a crenulate line from 

 near apex ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the base and a diffused medial irregular band pale ; an 

 ochreous patch with black striae on it at centre of outer margin ; 

 the cilia pale. Underside pale, with fuscous submarginal band 

 towards inner margin of each wing. 



Hob. Africa ; Aden ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Exp. 60-84 millim. 



Genus LACERA. 

 Lacera, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 336 (1852). 



Type, L. alope, Cram. 



Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions ; Japan. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd short ; 

 antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax and abdomen clothed 

 with coarse hair ; tibiae very heavily tufted with hair. Fore wing 

 with the apex arched and somewhat acute ; the outer margin 

 angled at centre ; the cilia crenulate. Hind wing with the cilia 

 crenulate ; the margin produced to slight points at veins 4 and 6. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, the first two pairs 

 aborted. 



2478. Lacera alope, Cram. Pap. Rvot. iii, pi. 286, E, F ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 173, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. fy S. no. 2756. 

 Lacera capella, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 337. 

 Lacera procellosa, Butt. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 368. 



Dark reddish brown slightly irrorated with grey. Fore wing with 

 traces of subbasal line ; a curved slightly dentate antemedial black 



Fig. 277. Lacera alope, $ . \. 



line ; an obscure reniform spot with an indistinct figure-of-8-shaped 

 mark below it ; a very irregularly dentate postmedial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, a pale mark with black streaks on the veins in 

 the sinus and a pale mark on it above inner margin ; the outer 

 area variegated with pale brown and fuscous. Hind wing with 

 indistinct waved postmedial line ; a marginal dark line with some 

 blue-grey specks on it. Underside with the outer area of fore 



