VESTERMANNIA. GOT 



area red-brown ; a conical red-brown patch in end of cell defined 

 by white and separated by a white discoidal line from a semicircular 

 spot beyond the cell, and by a streak on median nerviire from a 

 conical patch below the cell, a black point on the lower edge of the 

 spot beyond the cell ; postmedial line fine, white, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique from vein 5 to 2 below which it 

 is angled outwards, then incurved, slight purplish white suffusion 

 beyond it from costa to vein 5 ; a very indistinct whitish sub- 

 terminal line defined on outer side by slight blackish marks at 

 middle, incurved below costa, then minutely waved and angled 



Fig. 244. — Vesteronannia superba , ^. \. 



inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of blackish points. 

 Hind wing semihyalinc white tinged with brown, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside brownish white 

 with terminal brown band from vein 7 to submedian fold. 



Hah. " India," 1 c?,l $ •^^j^nwL{Fotheringham),l $ ; Bomeav, 

 Kanara, 1 S ; Madras, j^ilgiris (Hampson), 1 §; Tkavancoke, 

 Pirmad {Imray), 1 5 ; Ceylon {Lindesaij), 1 c5' , 1 $; Andamans, 

 1 § ; SiNfiAPOKE {Ridley), 1 $ ; Boeneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 6 ; 

 Java. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Pale olive-green thickly spotted with yellow; a yellow 

 dorsal line ; sides of head with small red streaks. Food-plant : 

 Tenninalia. 



7028. Vestermannia argentea. 



Westermannia argentea, Hmpsn. 111. ITet. B.M. viii. p. 80, pi 146 f 19 

 (1891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 359. 



Head purple-white, the palpi black behind and brownish at 

 extremity of 2nd joint ; frons with blackish lateral bars ; abdomen 

 blackish except towards base ; tegnlae and patagia creamy white, 

 the former with diffused red-brown band ; dorsum of thorax 

 fuscous brown, the metathorax white ; pectus and legs white, the 

 fore femora above and tibii3e on inner side fuscous ; abdomen white 

 dorsally suff'used with fuscous brown, Fore wing brilliant silvery 

 brown, faintly suffused with purplLsh white to the postmedial line 

 leaving a large elliptical patch of the ground-colour faintly defined 

 by white in and beyond end of cell and only separated from an 

 oblique patch on inner area by a slight white streak on median 

 nervure ; the area below vein 1 pure white to the postmedial line, 

 which is slight, white, oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly 



