ILEMA. 



13& 



If. Hind wiug pale yellowish. 



a^. Fore wing dark fuscous, with pro- 

 minent pale fasciae on costa and 



inner margin plumbeomicans^ 



¥. Fore wing whitish, streaked and 



suffused with fuscous costalis. 



¥. Fore wing without postmedial black spot 

 on costa. 

 a'. Fore wing grey-brown. 



a^. Fore wing of male with leaden fus- 

 cous streak below terminal part of 



fold in cell fmcistriga. 



¥. Fore wing of male without fuscous 



streak in cell cana. 



6'. Fore wing purplish black-brown hnmnea. 



269. Ilema tetragona. 



Lithosia tetragona, Wlk. ii. 510 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. v. p. 39, pi. 86. 



f. 14; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 75 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 317. 

 leuUsna tenuisigna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 24, pi. ii. f. 13 ; Xirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 317. 

 Teulisna sordida, Butl. 111. Het. v. p. 39, pi. 86. f. 15 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 317. 



Head, tegulse, and base of patagia yellowish white ; palpi at tips, 

 frons, antennae, the rest of patagia, and thorax deep black ; abdo- 

 men fuscous, the anal tuft 

 ^^^ J yellowish. Fore wing yel- 



\v ..^^^^^P ^ lowish white, with large 



f^S^'^'^^'^-Oxi. (^^^^^^^ ^ iiuadrate black patch ex- 



^^^^^^^ ^^-^^^^^^^ g tending from well before 



^^ ' wM (^^^^^^ >•£ ^^ middle to well be- 



"^'"'•'^{srJ.J^ \\\\y^ ^^ yond the middle and from 



\W__>/ ^0^ subcostal nervure ta 



inner margin, its upper 

 ^\g.m.-IUmateiA-agona S. \. extremity rounded; a 



(From Moths Ind. vol. u.) ,, •' , t i j.„- 



^ small postmedial tri- 



angular black patch on costa ; the costa towards apex and cilia 

 black. Hind wing pale yellow, in male with slight fuscous suffu- 

 sion near lower angle of cell. 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from cell or in female sometimes 

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

 from areole, sometimes stalked; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Ab. 1. sordida. Fore wing with the upper part of patch more 

 rounded ; female with a short black streak on vein 1 near base. 



Ilab. China, Foochow (De la ToucJie), 1 § ; Sikhim, 2 J , type 

 tenuisigna (LidderdaU), 2 $ , type sordida ; Assam, Nagas, Silhet, 

 1 c^" type; NiLGiEis {Eampson), 1 S; Travaistcoee (i^er^itsson), 1 $ ; 

 Cambodia (Moidiot), 1 S • Exp. 30-44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. oblonga, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 355; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 317. 

 Fore wing with the black patch considerably shorter, not extend- 

 ing so far towards base or termen. 



Hah. Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 2 c? , 1 $ type. Exp., 6 30, 

 $ 36 millim. 



