262 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Genus ORTHOPHCETUS. 



Orthophixfus, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189-5, p. 419. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 104. 

 Pleroxi/s, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 29 (nom. prseocc). 



Forewlng, veiu 12 ends on the costa a little before the upper end of cell, 6 from 

 near upper end of disoocellulars, but well below it, 5 well developed, upper disco- 

 cellular short, but distinct, middle and lower somewhat oblique, the lower a little the 

 longer ; cell long, three-fifths the length of the costa, vein 3 emitted a little before 

 the lower end, 2 at about one-third from the base, the wing with a costal fold in the 

 male, outer and hinder margins sub-equal. Hindwing with vein 7 emitted one-fourth 

 before upper end of cell, disoocellulars erect, the lower much the longer, outwardly 

 concave, 5 from their angle, well developed, 3 from lower end of cell, 2 from the 

 middle ; outer margin of the wing even, lobe inconspicuous. Antennae with the club 

 tapering to a fine point, bent at about a right angle at its thickest part ; palpi with the 

 second joint densely scaled, third joint almost entirely concealed ; hind tibiae with two 

 pairs of spurs. 



Type, Erionota (?) lalita, Doherty {phanasus, Hewitson, ex errore). 



Note. — Watson misidentified this species, he never could have seen plianseus, which 

 "has no costal fold to the forewing, and therefore, strictly speaking, does not belong- 

 to this genus. 



ORTHOPHCETUS LALITA. 

 Plate 754, figs. 1, <J , la, 9 , lb, ^ . 



Erionota (?) lalita, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 263. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 105. 

 Castjapa plianseus, Watson (nee Hewitson), Hesp. Ind. p. 109 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 657. 

 Orthophoetus ph,anseus,Wa.tson (nee Hewitson), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Adamson, 



Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 137. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright ferruginous. Forewing with an ochreous-red 

 streak witliiu the costal fold ; three semi-hyaline ochreous-white spots in the disc, 

 edged with biown, one being at the end of the cell, its upper half narrow, a more or 

 less round spot near the base of the second median interspace, an oval larger spot 

 below the first, in the first median interspace. Hindwing with a black spot across the 

 end of the cell, more or less divided into three pieces, and a discal series of small black 

 spots, somewhat obscure, and varying in number in different examples. Cilia of both 

 wings ferruginous, slightly tipped with whitish. Underside dull ferruginous-brown, 

 darker than the upperside, markings similar. 



