JIETAPXYA. VESTEEMANNIA. 603 



7021. Metaptya endoplaga. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Meiajyfya endoplaga, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 655 (1907). 



S . Head "white tinged with browu, the palpi blackish behind; 

 thorax and abdomen pale grey-brown, the crests tipped with black j 

 lore and mid tibise banded with blackish. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown with a slight reddish tinge ; traces of a curved antemedial 

 line with conical black patch on it at inner margin ; postmedial 

 line whitish defined on inner side by brown, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; some wliitish points with slight black 

 streaks between them on costa towards apex; a subterminal series 

 of small somewhat dentate blackish marks, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle. Hind wing whitish suff'used with brown ; traces 

 of a dark postmedial line with blackish mark on it at inner 

 margin ; some black scaling in the fan at torims ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown. 



Hab. Madkas, Bellary, Eamandrug {Campbell), 1 J type. Ex]). 

 22 millim. 



Genus VESTERMANNIA. 



J-ype. 



^estermannia, Hilbn. Verz, p. 250(1827) superba. 



Plusiodes, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 385 (1852) superba. 



Calymera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 104 (1882) picta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2i\d joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long or moderate; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antenna; of male ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed ; the pro- and metathorax with sujall spreading crests ; 

 tibite slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creuulate ; 

 the inner margin somewhat lobed before middle ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; (5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; abnormally with 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 ; 11 I'rom cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked ; 6 fully developed from 

 just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing without transverse lines. 



a. Fore wing uniform silvery white argeniata. 



b. Foi'e wing whitish suffused with brown and with dark 



.shade below costal area longiplaga. 



E. Fore wing with transverse lines. 



a. Fore wing without fiery red patch on postmedial area 

 below costa. 

 a^. Fore wing without chocolate-brown cornucopia- 

 shaped patch on terminal area. 

 a?. Fore wing without chocolate-brown postmedial 

 patch from costa to submedian fold. 

 a^. Fore wing with silvery white patch on basal 

 half from costa to vein 1 conjoined beyond the 



cell to a postmedial band argyruplaga, 



b^. Fore wing without silvery white basal patch 

 conjoined to a postmedial band. 

 aK Fore wing with the whole cell silvery white concha. 



