FASCELLINA. 225 



Eyes hairy; palpi stout and reaching vertex of head, the 1st 

 joint hairy, the 3rd minute ; antennae with cilia and bristles ; 

 abdomen stout ; hind tibiae not dilated. Fore wing with the 

 costa arched towards apex; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 

 from above middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before 

 upper angle ; 10 and 11 stalked and joined by bars to 12 and 8, 9, 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with the outer and inner margins excised to- 

 wards outer angle ; hind wing with the costa and apex more 

 or less truncate and excised. 



A. Cilia non-crenulate. 



3296. Fascellina chromataria, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 215; Hmpsn. III. 



Net. ix, pi. 168, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 2821. 

 Fascellina celata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1554. 



Fascellina olivataria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1555. 



Fascellina ciausaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1556. 

 Geometra usta, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1602 ; C. $ S. no. 3212. 

 Fascellina castanea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 612; C. fy S. 



no. 2820. 



Fascellina ceylonica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 394, pi. 187, figs. 3, 



3 a (larva). 



cJ. Deep red-brown, 



mfe*/\ .x^^S5 with an olive shade and 



RE^^^& /tS^S=^EEj jf slightly suffused with pur- 



IMH y^l_ ~~y ^ plish grey ; wings with 



*6* ^ -^^ f dark striae. Fore wing 



m I f\^?^ W % with the costa greyish; an 



^S^ Hr V U\vvXy ^ H ODU( l ue antemedial line 



^^Br ^ \\ Y\S/ ""^ angled below costa ; a 



H->^ yellowish spot at end of 



Fig. 123. Fascellina chromatarla, <J. }. cel1 often with a hjaline 



centre ; traces of a post- 

 medial line ; a curved and waved purplish-grey submarginal line 

 angled below costa, and on the hind wing becoming postmedial. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, the outer 

 brown, bright red-brown inside the postmedial Jine, which is 

 prominent, purple, and angled, or with a quadrate sinus below 

 costa and often waved towards inner margin. Hind wing yellow, 

 suffused and striated with rufous on outer area ; indistinct post- 

 medial and curved crenulate submarginal line. 

 2 Eedder. 



Larva purplish black ; the thoracic segments with irregular 

 purple-red markings ; 4th to 6th and anal segment with dorsal red 

 markings and paired red papillae ; head cleft and produced to two 

 papillae. Food-plant Cinnamomea. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Tenasseriin : Anda- 

 nmns; Sumatra; Celebes. Exp., <3 38, $ 44 miliim. 



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