THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 12Jr) 



branches brownish, abdomen yellow tinged with red and brown. Fore- 

 wing fiery red with a few dark striae, the medial area with diffused yellow 

 patches on costal area and below the cell and an oblique yellow bar from 

 costa before the angle of postmedial line, the costal edge yellowish on basal 

 area; a diffused brownish antemedial line oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then slightly waved ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial line dark 

 slightly defined by violaceous on outer side, acutely angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique ; the apex brownish with some violaceous irroration. 

 Hindwing fiery red sparsely striated with black, the terminal area with a 

 faint violaceous gloss ; medial area yellow, narrowing towards costa and 

 with slight red marks on its outer edge towards inner margin, bounded by 

 the dark postmedial line which is excurved and minutely waved from vein 

 4 to inner margin. Underside of both wings yellow striated with black 

 and with diffused patches of rufous suffusion especially on tornal area of 

 forewing and apical area of hindwing which has the postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 4 and 2. 



lfa^2Y«!^.—N. Assam, Dibrugrah (Ward). Kvp. '69> xniW. Type in B. M. 



3528«. Abraxas diveksicolor. 



Larva. — Dull fuscous ; a pale yellow dorsal stripe interrupted at the 

 junction of the somites ; spiracular line red with a series of minute red 

 specks above it ; head prominent, glabrous, red ; legs and preanal claspers 

 red, anal segment and anal claspers whitish. Food plant Bhododendron. 

 (W. H. Campbell). 



LARENTIANiE. 



3643a. CiDARiA nyctichroa, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 15.) 



cJ . Head, thorax and abdomen reddish brown mixed with some grey 

 and black, the tegulse, prothorax and abdomen with blackish bands, the 

 metathorax with black crest ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 

 brownish white, the fore tibiae and tarsi black with pale rings. Forewing 

 reddish brown suffused with a black and with numerous minutely waved 

 black lines, the double antemedial line and the postmedial line rather more 

 prominent, the latter excurved below costa and at middle ; a waved greyish 

 subterminal line and black terminal line. Hindwing red-brown suffused 

 with black and with numerous waved black lines except on costal area 

 which is greyish ; a black terminal line ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous, curved sinuous medial and postmedial blackish lines and a broad 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Habitat.— M.A.Ti-EiA.?,, Palnis (Campbell). Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M, 



3738. Photoscotosia venipicta insert (syn.) Eustroma pUosa, Th. 



Mieg. Le Nat. 1910, p. 34. 



3747i. PoMASiA PUNCTABiA, n. sp. 



5 . Head white with blackish bars above from and between antennae, 

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