402 



NOCTUID.^, 



double, blackish filled iu with tufts of raised green scales, arising 

 below the costa and incurved below vein 3, closely approximated to 

 the double maculate waved black subterminal line which has some 

 whitish before it towards inner margin ; cilia with a series of black 

 points at tips. Hind wiug whitish, the patch of androconia rufous ; 

 a terminal brownish band from apex to vein 3, in female extending 

 to submedian fold. 



Hab. ? SiKHiM ; Assam, Ivhasis, 1 c? , 1 $ type dorsoviridis. 

 Ex]). 6 36, $ 40 millim. 



Genus TYANA. 



Type. 



7>a?2a, Wlk. XXXV. 1776 (1866) caUichlora. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi iiptiii-ned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male almost simple, the basal joint large ; thorax clotlied almost 

 entii-ely with scales and without crests ; tibiaj smootldy scaled ; abdomen with 

 small dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing broad, the costa highly arched, the 

 apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen typically evenly curved and not 

 creniilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from well below upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 4 absent; 5 fully developed, from angle of cell or shortly stalked 

 with 3 ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 

 Eetinaculum of male a tuft of hair from below median uervLire. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with large fold on inner area containing a mass 

 of flocculent hair. 



A. Fore wing with the termen evenly curved. 



a. Fore wing with pale striw, of female with terminal red 



band. 



fd. Fore wing of fema.le with the terminal red band ex- 

 panding into large patches at discal and submedian 

 folds caUichlora. 



h^. Fore wing of female with the terminal red band hardly 



expandmg at discal and submedian folds tenuimargo. 



b. Fore wing without pale stria; or terminal red band monosticta. 



6848. Tyana caUichlora. 



Tycrna caUichlora, Wlk. xxxv. 1776(1886) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 14, 

 pi. 105. ff. 2, o; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 130; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. 

 p. 283. 



S . Head silvery white, the palpi with red bands on 2nd and 3rd 



Fig. 185. — Tirana caUichlora, S • \- 



joints, antennse reddish with a red band between their bases; teguljB 

 silvery white, red at base ; patagia silvery white, red at shoulders 



