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golden copper; a curved dark streak from base of eosta to the 

 anteraedial line below the cell, with an obliqtie white subbasal 

 striga on its outer edge from eosta ; antemedial line brownish 

 defined on inner side by pinkish grey, inwardly oblique below 

 median nervure, a black point on its outer edge in the cell ; an 

 oblique Y-shaped silvery- white stigma at origin of vein 2 with a 

 point above its outer arm in the cell ; a silvery point in lower ex- 

 tremity of cell before the V-shaped dark reniform ; some chocolate- 

 brown suffusion below and beyond angle of cell ; postmedial line 



Fig. 109. — Plusiopalpa adrasta, (^ . \. 



slight, double, bent outwards below eosta, then oblique, slightly 

 waved below vein 5 and excurved below submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line greyish defined on inner side by black with chocolate- 

 brown suffusion before it to below vein 5 and with oblique brown 

 suffusion before it from the postmedial line at vein 2 to termen at 

 vein 1, bidentate between veins 7, 6, then incurved and ending on 

 termen at vein 1, some black-brown beyond it at apex ; a fine 

 black terminal line and grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with cupreous brown except on basal and costal 

 areas ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a broad brown 

 subterminal shade with its outer edge angled outwards at discal 

 fold. 



Hah. GrABOON, Ogove R. ; Natal, Durban, in Coll. Clark 

 Assam, Khasis, 1 J type crassipcdpus ; Ceyloisi', Haputale 

 (^Mackioood) , 1 S , Diyatalawa {Mackwood), 1 $; Java {Hors- 

 Jield), 1 $ ; Celebes. I^xp. 40-44 millim. 



Genus CHEYSOPTERA. 



Type. 



Chrysoptere, Latr. Fam . Nat. p. 476 (1825) c-aureum. 



Folychrysia, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 251 (1827) moneta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long and fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round, overhung by long 

 cilia; anteunis of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed willi hair and hair- 

 like scales mixed with some scales, the patagia fringed with long scales above, 

 the meso- and metathorax with large divided crest ; tibiae fringed with long 

 bair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on 1st and 3rd segments 

 larger. Fore wing with the eosta arched towards apex. which is somewhat 

 produced, the termen typically evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 



