THE MOTHS OF INDIA. Ill 



Genus Chrostogastria. 



Type 



Ckrostogastr/a, Hiibn. Verz., p. 189(1827) pruni. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect to well beyond frons and thickly clothed 

 "with hair; frons with tuft of hair ; eyes small, hairy ; antennae of male pecti- . 

 nate to apex with long decumbent branches, the basal joint with tuft of hair, 

 of female with shorter branches; head, thorax and abdomen clothed with woolly 

 hair, the tibiae and tarsi fringed with long hair on outer side, the tibiae with 

 terminal pairs of small spurs. Forewing with the costa highly arched towards 

 apex, the termen rather oblique and strongly crenulate ; vein 3 from long 

 before angle of cell ; 4" 5 from angle ; 6*7 stalked ; 8 from angle, 9-10 stalked; 

 11 approximated to 12 towards costa. Hindwing with the costa strongly lobed 

 at base ; the termen crenulate; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4*5 hardly 

 stalked; 7 from long before angle of cell, bent upwards and touching 8 at a 

 point. 



922a. Chrostogastria pruni, Linn. Syst. Nat., p. 498 (1758) ; Esp. Schinett, 



III, p. 72, PI. 10. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Bomb., 

 f. 186. Godt. Lep. Fr., IV, p. 87, PI. 8, ff. 3-4. 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal., p. 124. 

 ■Odoneslis prunoides, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal., p. 69 (1872). 



Orange yellow suffused with red ; antennae with the branches brown. Fore- 

 wing irrorated and suffused with red ; an indistinct antemedial line, oblique 

 below the cell ; a rounded silvery white discoidal spot ; a prominent very 

 obliquely curved postmedial line, approximated at inner margin to the ante- 

 medial line ; a rather diffused red subterminal line, slightly dentate at the 

 veins, incurved between veins 6 and 4. Hindwing with traces of irregular post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it usually yellower. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan ; W. 

 'China ; Assam, Khasis. Jaintia Hills. Exp. 46 — 76 mill. 

 Larva.-— Kirby, Butt, and Moths, Eur..p, 137. 



Bluish grey spotted with whitish and with the lines yellow, the 3rd somite 

 with red dorsal band ; the 12th somite with dorsal hump defined by reddish : 

 stigmata ringed with black. Food plants various forest and fruit trees 9*5. 

 929. Alampra ferrdginea, insert (syn.) Taragama indicus, Conte. Rapp. 



Lab. Et. Soie XIII. p. 24, PI. vi., f. 1 (1909). 



The hindwing of male has the termen squarely truncate, the figure represents 

 a female, not a male. 



951a. Gastropacha khasiana, Swinh., A.M.N,H. (7), XV., p. 499 (1905). 



$ . Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous white 

 tinged with rufous. Forewing rufous suffused with whitish, especially on 

 terminal area which is tinged with ochreous , the lines formed of small rufous 

 lunulate marks ; two antemedial lines; a black discoidal point ; two postmedial 

 lines, bent inwards and diverging towards costa, then oblique, with another line 

 beyond them from costa to .vein 6; a subterminal line bent inwards to costa 



