ELPHOS. 



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Genus ELPHOS. 

 Elphos, Guen. Phal i. p. 285 (1857). 



Type, E. hymenaria, G-uen. 



Range. Japan ; Himalayas ; Assam ; Sylhet ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with long hair in front ; 

 antennas of male bipectinated with long branches to three-fourths 

 length ; hind tibia3 dilated ; wings very broad, the outer margin 

 crenulate. Fore wing of male with fovea ; vein 3 from before end 

 of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle ; 11 free. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with vein 10 given off from 7, 8, 9. 



3362. Elphos hymenaria, Guen. Phal i, p. 285, pi. 16, fig. 4 ; M oore, 



Lep. Ceyl. in, pi. 193, fig. 1 ; C. Sf S. no. 3398. 

 Elphos procellosa, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 431. 



d . Purplish fuscous, irrorated with black and with some fulvous 

 markings, especially near the lines. Fore wing with waved ante- 

 medial line ; an obscure, nearly straight medial line, becoming 

 antemedial on hind wing ; a diffused fulvous patch beyond cell ; 



Fig. 132. Elphos hymenaria, 



both wings with highly waved postmedial and submarginal lines. 

 Underside fuscous, with spot at end of cell ; a white patch beyond 

 cell of fore wing ; a broad black marginal band, with white patches 

 on the margin. 



2 with the ground-colour white except on apical area of fore 

 wing, the purplish-fuscous and fulvous markings appearing as spots 

 and blotches. 



Hab. Himalayas ; Assam ; Ceylon ; Burma. Exp., <$ 84, 104 

 millim. 



