434 CATALOGUE OF 



982. PHALERA GROTEI, Moore. 



Phalera Grotei, n. sp. — Pore-wing brown, with numerous indistinct 

 undulated lines ; silvery basally and along the posterior margin ; a 

 sub-basal transverse black line ; a submarginal black double line with 

 its tip of a buff-colour ; marginal lines zigzag : hind-wing brown, with 

 broad darker brown marginal band ; upper part of head whitish, front 

 of thorax brown, sides and hind-part of thorax grey ; abdomen pale 

 brown, with blackish bands. Expanse 2f in. 



a. Bengal. Mr. Grote's Drawing. 



The larva and pupa of Plial. Grotei are figured on Plate XXIII., 

 figs. 5, 5a, 5b, copied from the original drawing of A. Grrote, Esq. 

 The larva " feeds on Ccesalpinia." 



983. PHALERA PARIVALA, Moore. 



Phalera Parivala, n. sp. — Pore-wing suffused with black, grey at 

 the base and at the posterior angle, with various sub-basal black 

 undulating lines and a black patch on posterior margin ; the apical 

 ferruginous patch broad, extending considerably across the wing, and 

 having regular undulated margins ; some ferruginous marginal and 

 black submarginal spots : hind-wing fuliginous, palest basally ; cilia? 

 paler, with dark spots ; sides of thorax grey ; upper part of head and 

 front of thorax pale ferruginous ; thorax with blackish quadrate spot ; 

 abdomen above pale ferruginous ; tip testaceous ; body beneath and 

 legs brown. Expanse 3| in. 



a. b. Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Expo- 

 sition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



Section III. 



Larva elongate, fleshy, either naked or with only a few fine short 

 straggling hairs, with a horny plate on the second segment ; feeds in 

 the wood of trees, or at the roots of plants. 



Metamorphosis : — Cocoon of slight material, either formed within 

 the cell or bore of the larva, or subterranean. 



The perfect insect has very long wings ; flies at dusk ; antennae 

 either bipectinated to the middle, thence to tip serrated or simple, 

 in the male ; female, simple or slightly ciliated, or short and simple ; 

 proboscis obsolete ; abdomen long, stout, or slender. 



