ACID ALIA. CHEYSOCEASPEDA. 443 



a crimson band ; vertex of head and shaft of antennae white. Fore 

 wing with antemedial series of specks ; medial purple-suffused 

 crimson patches at end of cell and above inner margin ; two large 

 patches covering the greater part of the outer area. Hind wing 

 with cell-spot and purple patch on inner area ; submarginal patches 

 below apex and near anal angle. 

 Hal. Sikhim. Exp. 38 milliin. 



Genus CHRYSOCRASPEDA, nov. 



Type, 0. abhadraca, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Palpi minute and hardly reaching the frons. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or on a short stalk. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male bipectinate to three-fourths length ; 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 

 from angle of cell or on a short stalk. 



A. Wings ivith the outer margin evenly rounded. 

 a. Fore wing with the apex not produced. 



3917. Chrysocraspeda mitigata, Wlk. Cat. xxii. p. 664 ; C. $ &'. 



no. 3976. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; wings orange, slightly 

 irrorated with crimson. Fore wing with the base crimson; a 

 crimson medial band ; three submarginal spots and one on margin 

 below middle. Hind wing with the base crimson ; a very large 

 patch on inner area from before middle to near anal angle and 

 extending to vein 6. 



Hob. Moultnein. Exp. 22 millim. 



3918. Chrysocraspeda plumbeofusa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, 



p. 136. 



c? . Red, with darker striae ; antennae pinkish ; the head, thorax, 

 the fore wing except beyond the cell, and the base of hind wing 

 suffused with leaden grey. Fore wing with large black discocellular 

 lunule. Hind wing with white discocellular spot; both wings 

 with the cilia golden yellow. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with purplish fuscous except the apical one-third ; hind wing pale. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 28 millim. 



b. Fore iving ivith the apex produced and acute. 



3919. Chrysocraspeda abhadraca, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 636; Moore. 



Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 199, figs. 3. 3 a ; C. 8f S. no. 3550. 



Brown ; the head, thorax, and abdomen suffused with crimson ; 

 metathorax with two white specks. Fore wing with a diffused 

 subbasal band of pale pink not reaching the costa and with 

 some dark specks on it; a small dark annulus at end of cell ; 



