138 



ARCTIAD^. 



Ab. 2. directa. Fore wiug with the lower black patch bar- 

 shaped ; thorax grey or with black stripe. 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from cell ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 6 and 7 from a point 

 at end of areole or shortly stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Eab. N. China (Fortune), 2 $, type. Rvj). 39-42 millim. 

 Type t directa in Coll. Leech. 



C-. (Zadadra). Hind wing of male with large patch of anclroconia 

 below medial part of costa ; fore wing with the inner margin 

 highly arched and fringed with hair towards base. 



268. Ilema distorta. 



Lithosia distorta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 572 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, pi. ii, 

 f. 15 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 77 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 319. 



(S . Head blackish, the vertex dull orange ; thorax and abdomen 

 the ventral surface and anal tuft orange. Fore wing fuscous 



grey ; the costal area ochre- 

 ous suffused with fulvous, 

 with a round black spot 

 beyond middle, with an 

 obscure obliquely - curved 

 fuscous band from it to 

 inner margin ; the inner 

 margin narrowly ochreous. 

 Hind wing pale yellow, 

 tinged with fuscous towards 



grey. 



Fig. 86. — Ilema distmia, (^ . 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



apex ; the patch of androconia fuscous. 



5 . Fore wing with the interspaces of outer half obscurely streaked 

 with ochreous ; the costal fascia yellowish white and the spot more 

 triangular. 



Ab. 1. (S . Fore wing without the black spot on costa. — Nepal, 



Ab. 2. 2 . Fore wing without the ochreous streaks in inter- 

 spaces. — Pulo Laut. 



Fore wing with vein 2 in male from well beyond middle of cell ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 6 and 7 from 

 areole ; 11 free, in male from near end of cell. 



Hah. Nepal (Hardivicke), 1 c? ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 1 6 ; Assam, 

 Khasis, Moore Coll., 2 c5' , 1 $ type, Naga Hills; Pulo Latjt 

 (Doherty), 1 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. 



d-. {Prahhasa). Hind wiug of male without 

 secondary sexual characters. 

 a^. Fore wing with large quadrate postmedial 



black patch from cell to inner margin ... ietragona. 

 6'. .Fore wing without postmedial black mark 

 below the cell, 

 a*. Fore wiug with postmedial black spot on 

 costa. 

 a'. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



a!'. Fore wing dark brown, with pro- 

 minent pale costal fascia flavicosta, 



¥'. Fore wing paler brown, with indi- 

 stinct costal fjiscia venosa. 



