THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 887 



with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather short 

 and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly cvirved and slightly cre- 

 nulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; ]1 from cell, Hindwing with 

 veins 3' 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of dis- 

 cocellulars : 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with the medial line indistinct or absent. 

 a. Forewing net suffused with fiery red. 



a}. Hindwing wholly tinged with brown. 

 «-. Hindwing not ochreous. 



«\ Forewing with the inner area cupreous red . . cupreipenni)^ .. 

 I/'. Forewing with the inner area not cupreous 

 red. 

 a"^. Forewing purplish red-brown . . . . chinensis. 



b*. Forewing fuscous brown . . . . cinevea. 



Jr. Hindwing ochreous tinged with brown . . viodestissima , 



b\ Hindwing white, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 

 «-. Forewing with the subterminal line excurved at 



middle . . . . . . . . . . viscosa. 



Ir . Forewing with the subterminal line not excurv- 

 ed at middle . . . . . . . . jwliastis. 



f>. Forewing suffused with fiery red . . . . . . pyroxantlia. 



B, Forewing with prominent rather diffused dark medial 



line . . . . . . . . . . . . fjrisea. 



1834 h. Hadjina c'upkeipennis. 



Ilattia cupreq)ennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 112 (1882); Hmpsn. 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. viii, p. 525, pi. 136, f. 13. 



Head and thorax fiery red mixed with dark brown and some grey ; 

 abdomen dark brown. Forewing deep cupreous red shading to brown 

 mixed with grey on costal and terminal areas ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform whitish irrorated with brown and 

 very faintly defined by brown, the former round, the latter somewhat 

 quadrate ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, bent outwards below 

 costa, then produced to dark streaks with grey points on them on the 

 veins, incurved below vein 4 ; hardly a trace of the subterminal line ; a 

 fine punctiform black terminal line. Hindwing glossy yellowish brown ; 

 a fine dark terminal line and slight pale line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 pale tinged with red and thickly irrorated with brown, a small black 

 discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Pun.jab, Murree ; Sikhim, Exp. 30-36 mill. 



