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ICHTHTTTRA RESTITTTRA (Plate 122, Fig. 1, la, $ 2, 15, larva). 

 Ichthyura restihtra, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 433 (1865). 



" Male : purplisli ferruginous-brown : forewing with three pale slight brown- 

 bordered undulated lines, two interior and one exterior; two irregular incomplete 

 brown bands, one intersected by the exterior line, the other submarginal and accom- 

 panied by some black points : hindwings brownish-red, wings beneath with a single 

 middle brown band. Female rather paler, bands of the forewing almost obsolete, 

 hardly darker than the ground colour. Head above and front of thorax dark brown. 



Expanse, 11 to 12 lines." 



Larva slightly hairy, with a dorsal pinkish tubercle on fifth and on twelfth 

 segment, which are also slightly hairy, and a sublateral row of shorter tubercles ; 

 colour purplish -brown or purplish-grey, with several longitudinal black-speckled 

 lines ; anterior segments with a subdorsal black spot streaked with ochreous-white ; 

 some dorsal ochreous-white dots and two lateral rows of similar dots. Pupa purplish- 

 brown. 



" Larva feeds on Mceocarpus." (Thwaites.) 



Genus BEARA. 

 Beara, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1703 (1866). 



Wings small : forewing shghtly elongated and broad, costa arched at the base, 

 apex acute, exterior margin almost erect, posterior margin long, convex at the angle 

 and near base ; costal and subcostal vein wide apart ; cell disposed almost in middle 

 of the vnng, long, extending two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one- 

 third before end of the cell, second at one-ninth, trifid ; fifth from end of the cell, 

 ascending and touching second below the base of third ; discocellular bent at each 

 end, concave in middle, radials from upper and lower end ; middle median from 

 about one-ninth before end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian 

 curved downward : hindwing small, short ; costal and subcostal touching near their 

 base ; cell extending half the wing ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 obliquely concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from a very acute 

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

 vein recurved. Body squamose, abdomen of male extending nearly half beyond the 

 hindwing, stout in female ; palpi ascending, squamose, second joint long, clavate, 

 third joint cyhndrical ; antennge bipectinate in male ; proboscis exserted ; legs 

 squamose, femora slightly pilose beneath, hind tibiae with two pairs of long spurs. 



BEARA DICHROMELLA (Plate 123, Fig. 2, 2a, (J ? ). 

 Beara dichromella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1703 (1866). 

 Forewing purplish-red, very indistinctly crossed by a subbasal, an antemedial, 



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