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CH^ROTRICHA DECUSSATA (Plate 113, Fig. 2, 2a, c? ? , 2S, larva). 

 Clicerotricha decussata, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 345, 9. 



Male and female. Deep oclireous-yello-w, palest on the hindwing and abdomen : 

 forewing very sparsely irrorated with prominent black scales ; crossed by two medial 

 indistinct greyisb-brown angular-bordered recurved bands, which, are shghtly confluent 

 below the cell ; a small black spot at end of the cell. 



Expanse, 3* If, ? 1|- inch. 



Larva thickish, tufted with short grey hairs ; purple-brown, marked with 

 numerous irregular pale reddish lines ; a pale speckled dorsal tubercle on fifth, sixth, 

 and twelfth segments, between which is a dorsal chain-like pale band ; a black dorsal 

 line on the anterior segments. Cocoon pale red, lax. Pupa reddish-brown, black 

 speckled. 



"Feeds on Loranthus." (Thivaites.) 



Genus CISPIA. 



Cispia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 857 (1855). 



Forewing somewhat short, broad, triangular, costa convex ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second from the end, quadrifid, the third 

 and fifth from below second at equal distances from its base, the fourth from third at 

 half its length ; discocellular bent close to upper end and deeply bent inward in the 

 middle, radial from the angle ; three upper medians from equidistant angles at end 

 of the cell, first or lower at one-third before end of the cell ; submedian much 

 recurved : hindwing large, short, broad ; costal vein arched at the base ; subcostal 

 shghtly touching costal at middle of the cell, two subcostal branches at end of the 

 cell ; discocellular bent inward before the middle ; three upper medians from angles 

 at end of the cell, first or lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein almost straight. Body long, somewhat slender, thorax compactly pilose, 

 abdomen tufted at apex ; palpi porrect, thick, laxly squamose ; antennse bipectinated ; 

 legs pilose beneath, hind tibi^ with four spurs. 



Type, G. jjunctifascicc. 



CISPIA PUNCTIFASCIA (Plate 113, Fig. 3, ^). 

 Cispia punctifascia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 857 (1855), $ . 



Male : forewing brownish-ochreous, all the veins lined with ochreous-white ; a 

 transverse medial oblique ochreous-yellow band bordered on each side by a row of 

 black lunules ; three small black spots also at base of the wing : hindwing ochreous- 

 yellow. Body ochreous-yellow, thorax black spotted, abdomen with a lower dorsal 

 and a lateral row of black spots ; antennae brown, shaft black ; legs ochreous-yellow, 



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