58 COSMIID.E.— HADENID^. 



COSMIIDJi;. 



COSMIA, Ochs. 



Cosmia albipennis. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 13.) 



Nearest to C. traptz'ina : primaries with tlie same arrangement of lines, pale vinous 

 brown^ the "orbicular" spot slightly paler, oblique, slenderly outlined in dark brown, a 

 similar spot between the latter ami the base; a small blackish aunulus below the " orbicular " 

 spot ; outer half of the central belt darker brown, especially towards costa, including the 

 reuiform spot, which is outlined in blackish brown ; inner line of central belt oblique, slightly 

 irregular, slender, but commeucing in a black costal spot ; central line strongly defined, 

 especially at costa, oblique, elbowed on interno-median interspace ; outer line strongly 

 defined, subaugulatcd ; an interrupted abbreviated black subbasal dash from costa almost to 

 submediau vein ; a well-defined slightly undulated submarginal line, shaded internally with 

 dark brown, irom upper radial vein to costa ; the costal margin above this shade blackish 

 brown, interrupted by three jjale dots; a slender blackish marginal line : secondaries of male 

 creamy white, the fringe towards apex usually tinted with vinous brown, of female grey, with 

 pale fringe ; basicostal area silvery : body pale vinous brown ; abdomen of female grey, with 

 vinous lateral and anal tufts. Under surface of wings creamy whitish, with the costal and 

 apical areas more or less suffused with red ; the centre of the primaries, especially in the 

 female, suffused witli grey; diseocellular dots and discal line much as in C trapcsina : pectus 

 and venter of female more or less red, venter of male wliitish. Expanse of wings 37-38 

 niilliii). 



Dharmsala ; at sugar : lare. 



Although structurally a Cosmia, and not much unlike C. trapezina in pattern, the form 

 of the wings in this species reminds one rather of Tieniocampn. The white secondaries of the 

 male are characteristic, somewhat resembling T. miniusa. 



HADENID^. 



DIANTHiECIA, Buisd. 

 DianthsDcia nivescens. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Closely allied to D. auroviridis, from which it may at once be distingished by the silvery- 

 white instead of whitish lines on the primaries, the more oblique and white costal dashes, the 

 pure white spots in place of the minute angular whitish dashes in the cell, the large diffused 

 bluish-edged white spot immediately beyond the cell, a pure white triangular spot below the 

 latter, a squamose white apical streak, and the white edges to the marginal black spots. On 



