212 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the base, apex slightly truncate ; exterior margin oblique, very slightly uneven, 

 posterior angle obtuse, posterior margin slightly recurved ; costal vein extending to 

 half the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at sonae distance before end of the 

 cell, second branch at its end, third branch at one-half beyond the cell, fourth at 

 about one-fifth beyond the third; cell short, broad; discocellulars inwardly-oblique; 

 upper discocellular short, middle discocellular concave, lower long and concave 

 posteriorly ; two upper median branches emitted at a short distance beyond lower 

 end of the cell ; submediau vein recurved. Eindu-ing short, broad ; apex slightly 

 angular ; exterior margin convex, very slightly scalloped and somewhat angular at 

 end of the upper median veinlet ; costal vein extending to the apex; precostal vein 

 short, almost straight ; radial emitted from subcostal branch opposite lower median 

 veinlet ; cell open ; two upper median branches emitted at considerable distance 

 beyond ; submedian recurved ; internal vein much curved from the base. Bodij 

 moderately stout ; thorax and base of abdomen hairy ; palpi ascending, scaly, second 

 joint hairy above, setose beneath, third joint shoi't, slendei', almost acicular ; forelegs 

 of male short, slender, finely hairy ; forelegs of female longer, slender, scaly above, 

 femur finely hairy beneath, tibia and tarsus slightly hairy at the side and beneath, 

 tarsal spines stout ; antenna with a gradually formed slender club ; eyes naked. 



Type. — C. Aoris. 



Larva. — [Lanka.] Cylindrical. Segments with two dorsal rows of long delicate 

 branched-spines, and two lateral rows of shorter spines ; a similar spine projecting 

 on each side of head from second segment. 



Pupa. — Suspended by tail, but in a horizontal position. With dorsal lengthened 

 tubercles and two longer tubercular processes projecting from front of thorax ; head 

 deft. 



CIRROCHROA AORIS. 



Cirrochroa Aoris, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 1.57, pi. 21, fig. 2, $ (18-t7-8). WestwooJ, Trans. 

 Eut. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 113, pi. 2 {hermajihrodiiet;). de Niccville, Butt of India, ii. p. 109 

 (1886). 



Wet-season fonn (Plate 364, fij 1, la, ^, lb, c, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright fulvous; basal areas slightly powdered with 

 fuscous scales ; veins discally black lined. Forewing with the apex truncated ; 

 discocellular veinlet edged by a slightly-defined slender blackish line on each side ; a 

 ti'ansverse inner-discal more or less distinct blackish recurved slender sinuous line ; 

 a discal series of vei'y indistinct or obsolescent dusky rounded diffused spots which 

 are most obsolescent, or obsolete, anteriorly; followed by an inner submarginal very 

 indistinct or obsolescent slender sinuous line, an outer submarginal distinct blackish 

 sinuous line, and a marginal straight line, the two latter merging anteriorly and 



