112 



NOCTFin.T:, 



angle; S anastomosing with the cell near base only ; male with some long hair 

 on upperside iu cell and on inner area, on underside with fringes of hair from 

 basal half of costa, median nervure and base of vein 4 and submedian fold. 



A. Fore wing without black streak from reniform to termen... fortissima. 



B. JFore wing with black streak from reniform to termen nigrostrigcda. 



2857. Cliecupa fortissima. 



Checupa fortissima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S67, p. GO, pi. 6. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 229. 



Head and thorax sap-green tinged with oHve-brown ; tegu]ae 

 with brown annuli surrounded by elliptical brown marks ; patagia 

 with dark brown line near edges ; niesothorax with two pairs of 

 small brown spots with tufts of whitish hairs between them ; meta- 

 thorax with whitish mark; tibiae with some black points; tarsi 

 rufous ; abdomen red-brown with the ventral surface ochreous. 

 Fore wing sap-green sHghtly irrorated with black ; subbasal black 

 spots on costa and below cell, the latter with curved black mark 



Fig. 19. — Checiqm fortissima, J 



beyond it; a black-brown fascia on basal part of inner margin with 

 a black spot above vein 1 at its extremity ; antemedial line very 

 oblique, sinuous, with black band beyond it from costa to median 

 nervure ; claviform large, black ; orbicular and reniform green with 

 slight whitish annuli with black before and between them in cell, 

 the former quadrate, open above and below, and with two black 

 points in it, the latter with its lower extremity produced, some 

 blackish in lower part and black points towards outer edge, the 

 area bej'ond it suffused with black ; a dentate medial line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, black, double towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa and an oblique 

 series of small U-shaped black maiks, larger towards costa; sub- 

 terminal lino formed by a series of white lunules with black dentate 

 si)ots beyond them extending to the terminal series of small black 

 and white spots; a Y-shaped white mark above tornus filled in 

 with black ; cilia greenish at base, chequered black and white at 



