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Genus ABARATHA. 



Aharntlia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 181 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 390 (1885). Watson, 



Hesp. Ind. p. 98 (1891). Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 88. 

 Caprona, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soe. 1893, p. 62; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. i.x. 1895, 



p. 421. Elwes and Edwards (nee Wallengren), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 150. 



Foreicimj, veiu 12 ends on costa some distance before the end of the cell, cell two- 

 thirds the length of the costa, discocellulars highly inwardly oblique, in one straight 

 line ; vein 3 emitted about one-sixth before the lower end of the cell, 2 from one-third 

 from the base ; costa gently arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin evenly convex, as 

 long as the hinder margin, which is straight. Ilindwing, vein 5 well developed, disco- 

 cellulars faint, in a slight outward even curve ; vein 3 emitted quite close 

 to the lower end of the cell, 2 from al)out one-third before the end ; 

 outer margin highly sinuate, being slightly excavated below the apex 

 and somewhat deeply excavated above vein 4, and again slightly excavated 

 below between vein 3 and the internal vein. Antennas less than half 

 the length of the costa, shaft slight, club moderate, short, curved, tip 

 blunt ; palpi porrect, second joint thickly scaled, third joint short, stout, its tip liluut ; 

 hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, and with a long stiff' lirush of hairs from the base of 

 the forelegs. 



Type, Pterygospklm ransonneUii, Felder. 



Watson sinks this to the African genus Caprona, but the Indian species differ 

 from the African in the length of the cell of the forewing, the well-developed vein 5 of 

 the hindwing, the robust protruding last joint of the palpi, and in other less important 

 characters. 



ABARATHA RANSONNETTII. 



Plate 775, figs. 3, $, 3a, ? , 3b, $, 3c, J (Wet-season Brood), 3d, (J , 3e, ?, 3f, ? (Dry-season Brood), 



3g, larva and pupa. 



Pterygospidea ransonneUii, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 284 (1868). 



Aharatha ransonnettii, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 182, pi. 97, fig. 1 (1881). Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hiot. Soc. 1887, p. 43. Davidson and Aitken, id. 1890, p. 374, pi. F, figs. 1, la (larva and 

 pupa). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 99 (1891). Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 448. 

 Betham, id. vii. 1893, p. 428. 



Caprona ransonnettii, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 62. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 319. 

 Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. i.x. 1895, p. 422. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. .xi. 1897, 

 p. 30, pi. 8, fig. 4 (larva and pupa). Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 150, pi. 23, 

 figs. 20, 20a (genitalia), de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 598. Hannyng- 

 ton, id. XX. 1910, p. 371. Evans, id. p. 388. 



Pterygospidea potiphera, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. Pterygospidea, pi. i. fig. 7 (1873). 



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