534 NocxuiD.y.. 



with tile basal joint white on outer side ; pectus white ; legs white 

 suffused with red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface 

 white, tinged with pinkish towards extremity. Fore wing red- 

 brown irrorated with black ; an oblique blackish line from costa 

 before middle to middle of inner margin ; a blackish discoidal point; 

 postmedial line blackish, obliquely excarved from costa to vein 4, 

 then slightly incurved; subterminal \me blackish, punctiform, 

 oblique from below costa to below vein 7 and angled inwards at 

 discal fold ; cilia grey-brown at base, ochreous at tips. Hind wing 

 white tinged with brown, the veins brown; cilia white; the 

 tinderside creamy white, the costal area sliglitly irrorated with 

 rufous. 



Hub. Bombay, Mhow {Forsaf/eth), 1 c? , Kanara (Ward), 1 $ 

 type ; CEYLoif, 2 S . Exp. 40 millim. 



Cocoon. Yellowish -with, thorn-like knobs and a long oblique tuft 

 of dark hair anteriorly on dorsum. 



6914, Aiteta damnipennis. 



Phanaca damnipenms, Wlk. xxxiii. 857 (1865) ; Hmpsn. III. Het. B. M. 

 ix. p. 101, pi. 159. f. 7 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 419. 



Head and thorax dark fuscous brown, the metathorax with 

 redder patch ; pectus and legs white, the tibite irrorated with 

 red-brown, the tarsi red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown with a greyish tinge, the crests tipped with grey, 

 the ventral surface white tinged with pinkish. Fore wing 

 chocolate-brown suli'used with purplish grey and with slight dark 

 irroration ; the costal edge whitish ; antemedial line dark, oblique, 

 sinuous ; a blackish discoidal point ; postmedial line dark, oblique 

 from below costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4, excurved above inner margin ; an oblique subapical series 

 of three slight dark spots from below costa to below vein 7 and 

 a subterminal spot below vein 5. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 costal area grej-^ to end of cell ; cilia whitish at tips ; the under- 

 side uniform dark bi^own. 



Bab. Tkavancoeb, Pirmad (Imray), 1 (5,25; Ceylon 

 (Templeton), 1 $ type, Nawalapittia {Green), 1 $ , Eay. 30- 

 32 raillim. 



6915. Aiteta truncata. 



Srada truncata, Wlk. xv. 1066 (1858); Moore. Lep. Cejl. ii. p. 118, 

 pi. 122. f. 2, a, h; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 419. 



Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; antennae with the basal 

 joint white at sides ; pectus white ; legs red-brown ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown, the crests and anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface 

 white tinged with rufous. Fore wing chocolate red-brown with 

 dark irroration, the costal edge pale ; antemedial line whitish 

 defined on outer side by dark brown, oblique, straight, from costa 

 to middle of inner margin ; a small blackish discoidal spot ; post- 



