372 PTEALLD^. 



SECT. I. Fore wing of male with the fringe of hair below the cell 

 long and terminating in a tuft of long hair, no spines arising 

 from it ; hind wing with a membranous ridge at the end of 

 the fovea. 



5076. Crocidolomia binotalis, Zell K. Vet.-Ak. Handl 1852, p. 66. 

 Pionea comalis, Guen. Delt. fy Pyr. p. 368; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 179, figs. 2, 2 a, b (larva) ; C. 8? S. no. 4176. 

 Pionea incomalis, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 369. 



Pale ochreous ; palpi banded with fuscous ; thorax marked with 

 ferruginous or fuscous. Fore wing more or less suffused in parts 

 with ferruginous and fuscous ; male with the costal tuft ochreous 

 and black ; a double antemedial line highly dentate in and below 

 cell; prominent dark-edged white spots at the angles of cell; 

 a highly curved minutely dentate postmedial line, with a series 

 of black specks on it and indistinct line beyond it ; an indistinct 

 minutely waved submarginal line; cilia leaden coloured at tips; 

 the fringe of hair below median nervure ochreous. Hind wing 

 semihyaline ochreous white; the apical area often more or less 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Larva pale violaceous brown with a paler dorsal stripe ; two 

 lateral series of black specks with a white line below them ; a 

 sublateral series of black specks ; head red ; 1st somite with a 

 black dorsal band ; legs black. Pupa red. 



Hob. S. Africa; Formosa; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Java ; Australia ; Norfolk Island. Exp. 26 niillim. 



SECT. II. Male with a large subcostal vesicle at base of fore wing 

 on underside, with a thick tuft of short hair from the subcostal 

 nervure just beyond it; the fringe below median nervure 

 much shorter and emitting four strong curved spines playing 

 on the subcostal tuft; hind wing with a membranous bar 

 given off from the end of the fovea at origin of vein 2. 



A. Fore wing of male with a slight tuft of long hair at end 

 of the fringe below the cell. 



5077. Crocidolomia suffusalis, Hmpsn. 111. Ret. viii, p. 135, pi.' 155, 

 figs. 4, 12. 



cJ . Differs from binotalis in the fore wing being usually much 

 more uniformly suffused with reddish brown or fuscous, and often 



Fig. 199. Crocidolomia suffusali*, rf. \, 



with a black medial patch between vein 2 and the inner margin ; 

 the fringe below median nervure fulvous. Hind wing usually 



