484 



NOCTTJID^. 



with rufous and irrorated with brown, a large black discoidal lunule 

 and slightly curved iDOstmedial line. 



Hob. Japan, Yokohama {Jonas, Fryer, Manley), 4 (5' , 5 $ , type. 

 Exi^. -50 millim. 



Genus ELVESIA. 

 Elwesia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 (1894) . 



Type. 

 cliplostigma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, 

 fringed with hair in front, the 3rd porrect, long, naked and dilated at ex- 

 tremity ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of female almost simple ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegulte 

 produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the thorax with very large triangular crest ; 

 tibife slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough 

 hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the 

 termen and cilia very highly crenulated ; 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 ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



*2639. Elvesia diplostigma. 



Elwesia di2olostigma, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 172 (1894). 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 tegulfe with deeper rufous line near tips which are grey ; tarsi with 

 slight grey rings ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing bright rufous 

 suffused and irrorated with violaceous grey, the terminal area 

 slightly darker, the veins streaked with whitish ; subbasal line 

 whitish slightly defined by brown on each side, oblique, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish slightly defined on each 



Fig. 151. — Elvesia di'plostigma, '^ . \. 



side by brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique ; clavi- 

 form, orbicular, and reniform very large, defined by whitish, the 1st 

 extending to median nervure, the 2nd oblique elliptical, the 3rd 

 erect elliptical, slightly expanding below with round fuscous spot 

 defined by whitish in lower part and slight fuscous point in upper 

 part ; a slight diffused dark medial line ; postmedial line whitish 

 slightly defined by brown on inner side, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, then with double series of black points beyond it on the 

 veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish 

 slightly defined by rufous on inner side, almost straight from costa 

 to vein 2, then incurved ; a highly crenulate rufous terminal lino 

 with fine ochreous line beyond it at base of cilia which are rufous 



