114 NOCTUID.E. 



6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing \yith 8 to form the areola ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with cell near base on]j. 



Sect. I. (Ckandata). Antennje of male bipectinate with long branches, tlie 

 apex simple. 



A. Fore wing bluish white with black markings partita. 



B. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous and purplish red... illocata. 



2859. Trachea partita. 



Chandata partita, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114, pi. 4. f. 16 (1882); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 222. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi except towards tips, sides of frons, 

 antennae and some scales between them, tips of tegulae and some 

 scales at middle, edges of patagia and sides of metathorax, and 

 prothoracic crest black ; pectus and legs fuscous black, the tibise 

 and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous black, the dorsal 

 crests deep black. Pore wing bluish white ; subba sal line repre- 

 sented by black striaB from costa and cell ; a black patch on basal 

 inner area, followed by a black band, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then incurved, sometimes interrupted below costa ; ante- 

 medial line expanding into a wedge-shaped spot at costa, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform white, con- 

 joined on median nervure, undefined above and below, defined by 



'F\g. 2Q.— Trachea partita, (S . \. 



a black bar on inner side of orbicular which is elliptical and by 

 black patches before and between them, a white patch on costa 

 above orbicular ; a sliglit, oblique, dentate medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line defined on outer side by a triangular 

 black patch from costa with white points on costa, then obsolescent, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, waved ; 

 subterminal line obsolescent and slightly waved from costa to 

 vein 2 where it is bent inwards, then erect to inner margin with a 

 brown spot before it below vein 2 and a black spot beyond it above 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia white intersected 

 with black. Hind wing fuscous black, the cilia chequered with 

 white except towards apex; the underside with the inner area pale, 

 a few white scales on costal area and some diffused scales before 

 termen, traces of a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 

 Hah. SiKHiM (Pilcher), 1 J , 1 § . Ew_p. 34 millim. 



