AITETA. — CLETHHOPHORA. 535 



medial line whitish defined on inner side by dark brown, excurved 

 below costa, then straight and erect ; subterminal line dark and 

 somewhat maculate, oblique to below vein 7, incurved at discal 

 fold and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered dark brown and 

 rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia brown at base, whitish 

 at tips; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hab. SiKHiM (Moller), 3 c? ; Bombay (Swinhoe), 1 $ ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris {Ilampson), 1 J , 1 $ ; Travancore, Pirmad {Mrs. Iraray), 

 1 $ ; Ceylon {Teynjoleton), 2 S type. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Head small ; thoracic somites much swollen ; anal somites 

 with two small pointed dorsal tubercles ; reddish brown, the 

 thoracic somites more olive-brown ; a pale dorsal line with luuulate 

 black edges ending in a band on anal somite, the thoracic somites 

 with dorsal black spots and streaks ; a pale lateral line edged with 

 blackish. 



Cocoon. Pale reddish brown or yellowish, with some thorn-like 

 knobs and an anterior dorsal hump. 



Genus CLETHROPHORA. 



Type. 

 Clethrophora, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 416 (1894) distinctd. 



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

 of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd long and oblique ; frons smooth with 

 pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely 

 ciliated; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex, angled at vein 4, 

 then oblique and slightly dentate at vein 2 ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or very shortly stalked ; 6 fully developed 

 from or from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



6916. Clethrophora distincta. 



Gonitis, distincta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 506, pi. 52. f. 7 ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 416. 

 Gonitis viridam, Heyl. 0. R. Ent. Soc, Belg. 1890, p. xxx. 



Head and thorax bright green ; antennae brown ; palpi, pectus. 



Fig. 204, — Clethrophora distincta, J. }. 

 and legs pale reddish and grey ; abdomen brown, ventrally pale 



