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12. Genus : Ait eta Walk. 



Tongue present ; frons smooth ; palpi short and stout, upturned, the terminal segment small, projected ; 

 antennae of £ elongate, pubescent only; fore wing long and narrow, the apex blunt; vein 6 stalked with 7, 8; 

 in hindwing veins 3, 4 are stalked; abdomen long, conical. Larva with the thoracic segments swollen, and 

 a double tubercle on the last segment; pupating in a strong cocoon with conical projection at one end. Type 

 A. musculina Walk. A. tropical genus of which a single species is recorded from Amurland. 



A. curvilinea Sfgr. (521). Forewing chocolate grey with two dark lines, the inner straight and oblique curvilinea. 

 outwards, the outer excurved above and oblique inwards; hindwing grey. Said to resemble A. truncata Walk., 

 especially the fuscous grey form from the Nilgiris, but in it the lines are pale. Amurland. 



13. Genus : Hepatiea Stgr. 



Tongue slender; palpi porrect upwards, thrice the length of head, the second segment smooth, the 

 third more than half as long as second; shoulders and thorax crested; abdomen slender, with slight tufts on 

 basal segments. Type H. anceps Stgr. 



H. anceps Stgr. (521). Forewing pale liver colour; in place of the inner line a diffuse oblique darker anceps. 

 fascia-form mark from inner margin, which is narrowly black between it and base; outer line brown, outcurved, 

 edged outwardly with white, which is plainest at inner margin, where it is followed by a violet grey patch; 

 submarginal line dark at costa, marked by interrupted spots below; fringe chequered light and dark; hindwing 

 dull light grey, darker terminally; a slight dark cell spot. S. Ussuri district, Amurland. 



14. Genus: Cwelastoeera Btlr. 



Tongue present ; frons smooth ; palpi upcurved, the second segment long, thickly scaled, the third 

 minute, pointed, porrect; antennae of <J bipectinated to just beyond middle; thorax and dorsum smoothly 

 scaled, without crests; legs smooth; forewing with apex subacute, the termen nearly vertical; neuration normal; 

 the areole small, vein 8 anastomosing with stalk of 9, 10. Type O. exusta Btlr. 



G. exusta Btlr. (= rubicundula Wilem.) (521). Forewing redbrown somewhat tinged with ochreous, exusta. 

 the terminal half flushed with purple, the postmedian area clouded with fuscous; lines dark but indistinct; the 

 subterminal formed of spots; a faint dark annulus at end of cell; fringe purplish red; hindwing whitish suffused 

 with brownish; the termen and fringe, except near anal angle, purplish red. Japan. 



G. ochroleucana Stgr. (52 n). Forewing ochreous tinged with rufous, in the terminal half suffused oc hrole u - 

 with purplish; lines brown, indistinct; a brownish dot in middle of cell and ill-defined fuscous lunule on disco- cana. 

 cellular; subterminal line punctiform; hindwing ochreous white, terminal area brownish, with some purple 

 above vein 2 to apex. Amurland and Corea. 



15. Genus : Cllliria Moore. 



Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment roughly scaled, the third 

 erect, smooth, as long as second; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax thickly clothed with scales, and like the ab- 

 domen smooth, without crests; forewing with the apex blunt and squared, the termen evenly curved; vein 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8, forming a long areole; retinaculum of $ bar-shaped. Type C. nigrisigna Moore. 

 A small Indian genus of dull-coloured slightly marked species, one of which occurs in Kashmir. 



C. ocellata Btlr. (521). Forewing dull grey brown with slight dark dusting; an inner and outer dark ocellata. 

 spot on costa, from each of which a faintly darker line can be traced running across wing; subterminal line 

 faintly denoted by small black spots; a round grey spot at end of cell; fringe concolorous; hindwing pale grey, 

 darker along termen; the fringe whitish. There are 2 $£ of this species in the Tring Museum from the Goorais 

 Valley, Kashmir; otherwise it is known only from the Punjab and Assam in N. India. 



16. Genus : Kerala Moore. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair at top; palpi upturned, closely scaled, the third seg- 

 ment short; antennae of (J ciliated, with a ridge of scales between their bases; thorax and abdomen smoothly 

 scaled, without crests; tibiae smooth; forewing elongate; the apex rectangular; termen not crenulate, slightly 

 excised towards tornus; small tufts of raised scales at the places of the orbicular and reniform stigmata; hind- 

 wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 6, 7 stalked; 7, 8 anastomosing to near middle of cell; both surfaces in <J clothed 

 with androconia except along margins; the retinaculum of <J a tuft of hair from below median vein. Type K. 

 punctilineata Moore. 



K. decipiens Btlr. (= macroptera Oherth.) (52 n). Forewing pale grey green; the cell and subcostal decipiens. 



