CEL^NOBEEINM 93 



SARANQESA ALBICILIA. 

 Plate 779, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, 9 , 3b, ^ . 



Sarangesa aihicilia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 176, pi. GS, figs. 5, 5a (1881). Watson, Hasp. 

 Ind. p. 55 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 48; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 

 p. 422. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 124. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1908, p. 7. 



Aniigonus segendis, Pliitz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxi.x. p. 230 (1885), (unpublished plate Xo. 1564). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside vinaceous -olive-brown, both wiugs more or les.s 

 covered with minute white scales, especially between the bands. Foreicing with a lartje 

 blackish spot at the end of the cell, another below it, a discal Ijand and a marginal 

 band, both rather broad, darker than the ground colour, made somewhat distinct by 

 the white scaling between them ; three sub-apical well separated dots from near the 

 costa, the middle one, inwards ; two dots in the cell towards its end with a dot above 

 them, the series in an inward curve, a dot towards the base of the second median 

 interspace, and sometimes an indistinct dot below well inwards in the next lower 

 interspace. Hindwimj with a spot at the end of the cell, one on each side of it, 

 indications of one or two .spots near the base, a discal more or less macular band and 

 indications of a narrow macular band near the margin, all .slightly darker than tbe 

 ground colour and very indistinct, outer marginal line of both wings black. Cilia of 

 forewing brown, touched with white, especially at the apes and near the hinder maroin ; 

 of the hindwing brown at the apes edged w4th white, becoming pure white on the 

 lower half, broadening hindwards where it contains an inner brown line, and a white 

 suffused line inside the marginal black line. Underside. Forewing pale brown, palino- 

 hindwards, markings as on the upperside, the bands and spots more prominent. 

 Hindwing bluish-white, the blue suffusion darkest towards the base, the costa narrowly 

 suffused with brown, the apex broadly brown, narrowing hindwards and continued 

 from the middle to the anal angle in a series of obscure brownish dots, a pale brown spot 

 inside the end of the cell, a brown line at the end, a larger brown spot above it, near 

 the costa, two small paler spots between it and the abdominal margin, a sub-basal pale 

 spot near the costa, and a discal series of small brown spots, with a large quadrate 

 spot in the series opposite the discoidal end. Antennae black, the shaft with white 

 dots, the club with a white mark at its end on the underside ; palpi, head and 

 body above concolorous with the wings, below they are pure white and the legs 

 are white. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expau.se of wings, $ % l-f^ to \^ inches. 



