PACHYPOLIA. LAMPROSTICTA. 



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minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to lower edge 

 of reniform, some brown and ochreous striae beyond it on costa, a 

 black streak from it to termen above vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 ochreons defined by rufous on inner side forming somewhat dentate 

 marks at middle, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, with black streaks from it to termen above 

 veins 3 and 2 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia fuscous 

 brown, with fine pale line at base followed by a slight dark line. 

 Hind wing greyish nearly uniformly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous with a black line 

 through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, strongly 

 on costal area, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hab. SiEHiM, 1 (S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus LAMPEOSTICTA. ^^ ^ 



Lamprosticta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 206 (1827) cidta. 



Chariptera, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 124 (1838) culta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short ; frons smootli ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna typically almost simple ; head and thorax clothed chiefly 

 ■with large rounded scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; 

 pectus clothed with long hair ; tibise thickly fringed with scales ; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of large crests. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex 

 rectangular, the termen rounded, non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 b obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennje of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour white nijihopada. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-green gemmea. 



*2481. Lamprosticta niphopasta. (Plate CIII. fig. 23.) 

 Lamprosticta niphopasta, Oberth. ined. 



S . Head white ; palpi and lower part of frons dark brown ; 

 antennae ringed with brown ; vertex of head with some brown 

 hairs ; tegnlae white, with strong black line near base and black 

 line near tips except at sides ; patagia white edged with black and 

 with some white at tips ; thorax black with some white scales ; 

 pectus and legs white with a few brown hairs, the tarsi ringed 

 with black ; abdomen white mixed with brown. Pore wing white 

 irrorated and in parts suffused with fuscous, especially on medial 

 area and base of inner area ; subbasal line black, from costa to 

 submedian fold, with a semicircular black mark beyond it on costa ; 

 a black streak ia submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is 

 black, angled outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique to the 

 submedian fold, then double, waved, filled in with white and with 

 an oblique black mark before it on inner margin ; claviform very 



