ARICHANNA. 293 



SECT. III. (Icterodes). Antennae of male bipectinated to three- 

 fourths length, with short stiff branches. 



A. Hind tibice of male dilated with a fold and expansile tuft of hair. 



3497. Arichanna furcifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p, 275 ; C. $ S. no. 3830. 



cJ . Olive-brown, irrorated and suffused with black. Fore wing 

 with a white speck at base ; a broad medial white band enclosing 

 a patch of the ground-colour on costa, with its middle and ndges 

 black ; an indistinct submarginal white line sending a fork to apex. 

 Hind wing grey, with slight fuscous irroration ; an indistinct 

 medial and lunulate submarginal line ; cilia ochreous. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 54 milliin. 



3498. Arichanna tenebraria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 652 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3742. 



Paricterodes luciguttata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 390. 

 Paricterodes commixta, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 390. 



c? . Head and thorax olive-green and fuscous ; a white tuft on 

 metathorax ; abdomen paler. Fore wing olive-green, irrorated 

 with fuscous and white ; traces of suffused dark antemedial, medial, 

 postinedial, and submarginal bands, the medial and postmedial 

 approaching each other below cell. Hind wing whitish, irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a cell-spot, postmedial and submarginal lines. 



Tenebraria is larger than luciguttata commixta has the fore 

 wing darker ; the ground-colour of hind wing brownish, with the 

 postmedial band more prominent. 



Hab. Sikhim; Khasis. Exp., <3 50-60, $ 65 millim. 



3499. Arichanna lapsariata, Wlk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1121 ; C. $ S. no. 3722. 

 Abraxas conspersa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 225 ; id. III. Het. 



vi, pi. 119, fig. 10 ; C. % S. no. 3721. 



Abraxas consocia, Butl A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 226 ; id. III. Het. 

 vi, pi. 119, fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 3720. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange, spotted with black. Fore 

 wing grey, with seven ill-defined and confluent black-brown 

 maculate bands and a few scattered smaller spots ; the base 

 yellowish, with black spots and a black patch on costa ; a white 

 postmedial band between the fifth and sixth maculate bands. 

 Hind wing white, with a spot at end of cell and one beyond it ; 

 three medial spots on inner area ; a submarginal series and 

 numerous small conjoined spots on the margin. 



The Sikhim. forms conspersa and consocia have the fore wing 

 thickly irrorated with small spots and no postmedial white band ; 

 conspersa is a small form with few dark specks on the hind wing, 

 consocia a large form with numerous specks. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 62-88 millim. 



3500. Arichanna regularis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 392. 



$ . Differs from typical lapsariata in the ground-colour of the 



