302 NOCTTTID^. 



GGOl. Selepa discigera. 



Gadirtha difHgcra, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 163 (1864) ; Svvinli. 



Cat. Het. Mus. O.Kon. ii. p. 70, pi. 2. f. 14. 

 Sclcpa strigifem, Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. p. 103, pi. 158. ff. 3, 3 a (1885) ; 



Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii. p. 370. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with red-brown, the 

 tcgulge and upper edge of patagia with dark brown stripes ; palpi 

 below, pectus, mid and hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 grey-white. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown and glossed 

 with purple, the veins with slight dark streaks, the submedian fold 

 pale with a black streak on it ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous to vein 1, then bent inwards ; an oblique dis- 

 coidal bar of raised scales ; postmedial line double, the inner line 

 indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, 

 then bent inwards, sinuous with tufts of raised scales on it to inner 

 margin, crossed just above vein 2 by a blackisli streak ; subterminal 

 line defined on inner side by dark brown, oblique towards costa, 

 then crenulate. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, or wholly 

 suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with diffused black patch in and beyond lower 

 angle of cell to postmedial line. 



Ab. 2, Fore wing with diffused black beyond antemedial line 

 towards costa, and thence through upper part of cell to postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale grey -brown. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Ifdller), 1 5 ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (T.R.Bell), 

 1 d", 1 $ ; Ceylon (Lindesai/), 1 § , Pundaloya (Green), 2 J , 2 2 

 type strigifera ; Lr. Bukma, Thayetmyo ( Watson), 1 $ ; Singapoee 

 (liidley), 1 (S : Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), type t in Mus. Oxon ; 

 LouisiADEs, St. Aignan (Meel:), 2 $ ; Queensland, Townsville 

 (Dodd), 1 d . E.vp. 22-28 millim. 



Larva. Brownish ochreous with a dorsal series of slender erect 

 black hairs which are very long and with spatulate ends at an- 

 terior and posterior extremities, lateral hairs white ; a subdorsal 

 black-spotted green band from 5th to 10th somites ; dorsal black 

 spots on 2ud to 5th and 11th Semites. 



6602. Selepa leucogonia. (Plate CLXXXIL jBg. 17.) 



Flothda leucogon'm, Hnapsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p.. 581 (1905). 



5 . Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with red-brown ; 

 patagia with brown line near tips ; abdomen grey, the crests dark at 

 tips. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas grey slightly tinged 

 with red-brown, the rest of wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the 

 grey area defined by a black-brown line from eosta to submedian 

 fold in which it forms a streak to postmedial line, emitting a slight 

 striga from its lower edge before middle ; a slight oblique red-brown 

 discoidal bar ; postmedial line indistinctly double, very oblique from 



