THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 1063 



J . Head and thorax black-brown, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; 

 legs irrorated with white ; abdomen fuscous brown. Forewing black- 

 brown irrorated with purple and grey, the medial area darker except to- 

 wards costa, the inner margin with red streak ; traces of a double waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, oblique, waved ; claviform indistinctly defined by blackish ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform with red annuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter rather narrow and angled inwards on median 

 nervure below orbicular to the antemedial line ; a very indistinct waved 

 medial line oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line double, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 reddish, defined on inner side by black-brown patches in the inter- 

 spaces, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3, 

 with slight black streaks beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal 

 lunules ; cilia black-brown with slight pale line at base. Hindwing dark 

 brown with traces of a pale subterminal band except towards costa and 

 inner margin ; cilia with whitish line at base and whitish tips ; the 

 underside greyish brown with traces of discoidal lunule, curved postmedial 

 line and diffused subterminal band. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 50 mill. 



Genus, Angara. 



Type. 



Ancara, Wlk., xv, 1714 (1858) . . . . . . . . replicant*. 



' Sect. I. — Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to three- 

 fourths length, of female with short branches. 



A. Forewing deep purplish red-brown suffused with viola- 



ceous grey . . . . . . . . . . obliterans:. 



B. Forewing ochreous more or less completely suffused 



with olive-fuscous . . . . . . . . aneemica. 



1763. Ancara obliterans. 

 1763a. Ancara aneemica. 



Ancara aneemica, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 253, pi. 

 114, f. 23(1908). 

 <S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with some 

 fuscous ; teguloe with slight dark medial line ; pectus, legs and abdomen 

 ochreous, the legs slightly tinged with pink. Forewing ochreous, irrorated 

 and in parts suffused with olive fuscous, the base of inner area and a patch 

 beyond the reniform tinged with rufous ; antemedial line double and minutely 

 dentate at costa, then single, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform represented by a blackish patch with an ochreous 

 1 patch beyond it ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by blackish, the 

 former ochreous and conjoined to the patch below cell, the latter narrow 



