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bordered pink interrupted band ; spiracles brown; a brown-bordered white spot on 

 side of nintli segment. Pupa dark red-brown. 

 " Feeds on Salix." (Thwaites.) 



This is quite distinct from both H. Damodara and H. liturata. The latter has 

 the forewing silvery-white, and the marginal ends of the veins black, the spots being 

 only upon the cilia. The former has a black-centred lunule at end of the cell, and a 

 lower series of spots contiguous to the outer submarginal sinuous line, these spots 

 being situated between the veins, and in the female, are partly confluent with the 

 marginal spots. 



Genus STAUROPUS. 

 Stauropus, Germar, Prod. p. 45 (1811); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 21; Walker, Catal. 



Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1019. 

 Terasion, Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Schmett. p. 147 (1818-25). 



Forewing long, narrow ; costa arched towards the end, exterior margin very 

 pblique ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second from the 

 end, quadrifid ; cell narrow, extending more than half the wing, discocellular 

 recurved, inwardly oblique, emitting a slender bifid vein let within the cell ; upper 

 radial from end of the cell in a line with subcostal, lower radial from middle of 

 discocellular ; tbree median branches, middle branch from near end of the cell, lower 

 at one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short ; apex somewhat 

 pointed, exterior margin slightly angular in middle ; costal vein arched at the 

 base, extending to apex ; subcostal arched in the middle of cell, where it slightly 

 touches the costal ; two subcostal branches on a footstalk at one-third beyond the 

 cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, emitting a slender discoidal veinlet within the 

 cell ; cell wide ; radial from near middle of the discocellular ; three median branches, 

 middle branch from near end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian 

 and internal vein slightly recurved. Wings beneath clothed at the base with longisL 

 hairy scales. Body moderately stout, pilose, abdomen extending beyond hindwings ; 

 head and base of antenna tufted ; palpi porrect, small, pilose beneath ; antennae 

 broadly bipectinated to two-thirds, the branches plumose, serrated at end ; femora 

 and tibia densely pilose. 



STAUROPUS ALTERNUS (Plate 119, Fig. 1, la, c? ?, U, larva). 

 Stauropus alternus. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1020 (1855). 

 Pale vinous greyish-brown, sparsely flecked with ferruginous scales ; cilia grey : 

 forewing with a curved discal series of grey -bordered ferruginous spots composed of 

 raised scales ; a similar marginal lunular line, and a lunule at end of the cell : hind- 

 wing with a marginal grey-bordered ferruginous lunular line ; two short anterior pale 

 waved-streaks before the apex. 

 Expanse, c? 2, ? 2| inches. 



