ABBAXAS. 299 



SECT. II. Palpi slighter ; fore wing with no f ovea ; vein 1 1 stalked 

 with 10, and becoming coincident with 12. 



A. Antennae, thickened by serrations, but without fascicles of cilia ; 



hind wing of male with the costa produced upwards into a lobe, 

 in the female similar to the male of the next group. 



3515. Abraxas lobata, n. sp. 



Similar in markings to the small specimens of the form 

 intermedia of sylvata ; the fulvous patches darker, with the silvery 

 markings on them lunulate. 



Hob. Simla (Harford). Exp., tf 48, 54 millim. Type in B. M. 



B. (Abraxas). Antenna of male someivhat thickened by appressed 



serrations and ivith fascicles of cilia ; hind wing with the costa 

 curved over, but not or hardly lobed. 



3516. Abraxas sylvata, Scop. Ent. Cam. p. 220. 

 Phalaena ulmata, Z'abr. Syst. Ent. p. 632. 

 Geometra pantherata, Hubn. Beitr. ii, 2, 47, pi. 2 N. 



Zerene leopardina, Soil. Suffers Kaschmir, iv, p. 490 ; C. fy S. 



no. 3736. 

 Abraxas intermedia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 324; C. $ S. 



no. 3733 A. 



Abraxas illuminata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 417. 

 Abraxas paucinotata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 417. 

 Abraxas suffusa, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 417. 

 Abraxas disrupta, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 418. 

 Abraxas determinata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 418. 

 Abraxas symmetrica, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 418. 

 Abraxas capitata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p 414. 



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

 white, with olive-fulvous patch at base, and another with some 

 silvery marks on it on inner margin beyond middle ; a grey patch 

 with a dark mark on it at end of cell extending to the costa ; some 

 grey spots below the cell and often in the cell and on the costa ; a 



Fig. 141. Abraxas sylvata, <$ . \ 



curved postrnedial series of spots with short dark streaks on them 

 at the veins and often other spots beyond them ; some spots on the 

 margin expanding into a patch at middle. Hind wing white, with 

 a more or less complete antemedial series of spots ; a postmedial 

 series of spots with fulvous streaks on them at the veins, often 



