PARAMAXATES. THALASSODES. 50? 



subbasal band and diffused postmedial band : the medial and outer 

 areas yellow. Underside whitish ; the basal area of both wings 

 and costa of fore wing grey with dark striae ; a waved medial line ; 

 a broad fuscous submarginal band from vein 5 of fore wing to 

 inner margin of hind wing; fore wing with patches of yellow 

 beyond cell and at apex. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus THALASSODES. 



Thalassodes, Guen. Phal i, p. 359 (1857). 

 (Enospila, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 5. 

 Gelasma, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 352. 

 Urospila, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 387 (1894). 

 Thalerura, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 175. 



Type, T. quadraria, Guen. 



Range. Japan ; Oriental and Australian regions. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint clothed with hair and reaching the apex 

 of the short frontal tuft, the 3rd naked and porrect ; antennae of 

 male usually bipectinated to two-thirds length ; hind tibiae usually 

 dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair. Fore wing with 

 veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 6 from cell. Hind wing with the 

 outer margin angled or produced to a point at vein 4. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked. 

 A. Fore wing with vein 11 from tlie cell. 



a. (Thalassodes). Fore wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 

 hind wing with the outer margin angled. 



4105. Thalassodes quadraria, Guen. Phal i, p. 360 ; C. $ S. no. 3469. 

 Thalassodes pilaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 361, pi. 15, fig. 2. 

 Geometra dissita, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 519 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 194, figs. 2, 2 a. 



Geometra semihyalina, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 528. 

 Thalassodes dissepta, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 550; C. $ S. no. 3453. 

 Thalassodes immisaria, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 553. 

 Thalassodes depulsata, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 555. 

 Thalassodes inconclusaria, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 556. 

 Geometra digressa, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 513. 



Blue-green ; the frons and palpi red ; vertex of head white ; 



wings semihyaline, with 

 numerous pale striae. 

 Eore wing with the costa 

 fulvous ; ante- and post- 

 medial indistinct pale 

 straight oblique lines. 



Hind win s with indistinefc 



postmedial line, produced 



Fig. 225. Thalassodes quadraria, rf. \. to . a P 011 !* ,, 



vein 3 ; both wings with 



the cilia ochreous at tips or wholly ochreous. Underside whitish. 

 Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; the Malayan sub- 

 region and Australian region. Exp. 38 millim. 



