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abdominal area are more dense and longer, and enclose a broad bare scaled-space on 

 the middle of abdominal margin. Body short, stout, thorax and base of abdomen 

 clothed with woolly hairs ; palpi large, porrect, flattened beneath and clothed with 

 appressed scales, hairy above, apex pointed ; fore tarsus of male slender, compactly 

 hairy ; fore tarsus of female slender, smoothly-scaled, femur fringed beneath with 

 very fine silky hairs, tarsal joints with lateral spines at tip; antennte with a well- 

 developed club ; eyes naked. 



Larva, — Elongated, somewhat slender ; head armed with two erect branched- 

 spines ; segments armed with a dorsal, a subdorsal, and lateral rows of branched- 

 spines. 



Pppa. — Stout ; dorsum arched, thorax elevated and rounded posteriorly, oblique 

 in front ; head-piece produced into two pointed processes. 



Type.— D. Bisaltide. 



LOLESCHALLIA INDICA (Plate 336, fig. 1, la, b, c, <^ ? ; fig. 2, 2a, b, ^, larva and ^mj;a). 



Bolescliallia Bisaltide, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 38, pi. 19, fig. 1, la, 5; lb, larva and pupa 



(1881), nee Cramer. 

 DoleschaUia Polibete, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 268 (1886), nee Cramer. Davidson 



and Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, p. 257, pi. 3, fig. 2, 2a, larva and pupa. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent brownish-ochreous ; cilia alter- 

 nately edged with white. Forewing with the apical half black, its lower edge curviuo- 

 from the subcostal irregularly across upper end of cell and the disc, thence decreasino- 

 in intensity to base of exterior margin, and sometimes enclosing a small ochreous spot 

 between the upper and middle medians ; an oblique subapical sinuous-edged broad 

 yellowish-odireous band extending from the costa, this band having a large somewhat 

 quadrate outer lower end, which is either slightly connected or entirely separated from 

 the inner portion in both sexes, or in some males from Kanara and Tenasserim, the 

 lower end is almost obsolete, being present only as an obscure speckle or a similar 

 slender lunule, and in some Tenasserim females the band is entire ; the upper discal 

 area from the black band is broadly yellowish-ochreous merging posteriorly into the 

 darker ground-colour. Hindwing with the anterior margin broadly dusky olivescent- 

 brown, a more or less distinct black upper and a lower outer-discal dot, and two 

 wavy marginal lines, the inner line diffusedly-speckled, the outer linear. Underside. 

 Male. Grovmd-colour either dark rich reddish-ochreous, ochreous-brown, olive- 

 brown, or purpurescent brownish-ochreous (presumably wet-season brood), obliquely 

 fasciated with grey or chalybeate lilacine-grey. Both wings crossed by a discal 



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