12 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus AMECERA. 



Amecera (part), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 162. 



Pararge, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 177 (1883), nee Hubner. 



Imago. — Male. Wings broad ; -woolly at their base. Forewing subtriangular ; 

 costa well arcbed, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly scalloped and convex ; 

 costal vein much swollen at the base ; the median ^-nd submedian much less so ; 

 cell broad ; discocellulars angled close to subcostal and before the middle, radials 

 from the angles. No androconial patch present. Himhring short ; exterior margin 

 convex, scalloped ; cell short, broad ; first subcostal emitted at some distance 

 before end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly-oblique and angular in the middle, 

 radial from the angle ; two upper medians emitted from lower end of the cell, 

 upper median much curved. Thorax hairy; palpi long, slender, hairy in front, 

 apical joint somewhat cylindrical ; legs rather long, slender, middle and hind 

 femora slightly hairy beneath ; antennse slender and with a well-formed, elongated, 

 slightly grooved club ; eyes hairy. 



AMECERA CASHMIRENSIS (Plate 97, figs. 1, la, b, cj ? ). 



Pararge Cashmirensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 265, pi. 43, fig. 3, $ . Marshall and de 

 NicevUle, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 177 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-yellow, suffused with ochreous-brown at 

 tlie base of the forewing, and darker on the hindwing ; cilia yellowish-white 

 alternated with dark brown. Foreiuing with a black dentate discocellular bar, and 

 an ochreous-black exterior marginal band, the inner edge of which commences on 

 the costa about one-third before the apex, and curves exteriorly half round a black 

 white-pupilled subapical spot, and thence attenuates to the posterior angle; no 

 androconia present. Hindiving with a broad dusky ochreous-brown exterior 

 maro-inal band with waved inner edge, before which are three or four discal black 

 spots, each with a minute white pupil, the middle spot being the largest, and the 

 anterior the smallest. Underside. Foreiving paler ochreous, markings as on upper- 



HisTORiCAL Note on the Genus Ameoera. — This genus was founded in 1867 by Mr. Butler, with 

 meqccra as the indicated type. As this species {megoera) became the type of West wood's genus Lasio.m- 

 MATA in 1840, it cannot therefore be taken for the type of Amecera. All the other species mentioned 

 by Mr. Butler, under Amecera, are strictly congeneric with megsera, except Eversmanni and Baldiva, the 

 latter species (Baldiva) being congeneric with Semele — the type of Hiibner's genus EcMEins — consequently 

 Eversmanni is the only species remaining in Amecera, and must therefore be retained to represent the 



genus. 



The Pap. CUmene, Fabricius, of S. E. Europe, being congeneric with Eversmanni, will also come into 



Amecera, as here defined. 



