PLATYJA; CRITHOTE; EPISPARIS. By W. Wakken. 379 



hindwing with the cell very short; in the <J veins 2, 3, 4 run close together and parallel for two thirds of their 

 course. Larva with 4 pairs of abdominal prologs; the pupa efflorescent. Type /. manlia Cram. 



I. manlia Cram. (68 d). Forewing pale to dark redbrown, in the J more mixed with grey; stigmata manlia. 

 pale, diffuse, the orbicular round and small, the reniform large, without dark outline in (lie ',', much larger 

 and laterally edged with white in J; a velvety black anvil-shaped blotch in cell between them and a larger 

 one beyond reniform; in the <J only two black blotches obliquely below them, connected by a narrow black 

 line, each marked by a white lunule, representing inner and outer line, which are both sinuous, much interrup- 

 ted and obscure; hindwing fuscous brown, with an outer curved blue band, thinning out before inner margin 

 beneath an ochreous black edged spot. This beautiful and variable oriental species is noted by Leech from. 

 Central and Western China. 



36. Genus: Platyja Hbn. 



Tongue well developed; Irons smooth; palpi upcurved in front of face, the second segment stout, 

 curved, thickly scaled, the third short, slender, blunt; thorax and abdomen smooth; dorsum with long coarse 

 hair: tibiae and hind tarsi of $ very hairy; forewing with costa strongly arched towards apex, which is acutely 

 produced; termen oblicpiely sinuous; hindwing with cell quite short, the anal angle truncate. Type P. um- 

 minea Cram. 



Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate with short stiff branches; mid and 

 hind legs with tufts of very long hair from the femoro-tibial joint. 



P. umminea Cram. (= drepanoides Walk., falcata Fldr.) (68 e). Forewing olive fuscous, sometimes umminea. 

 more reddish tmged, with a few grey specks; lines dark and fine; the inner wavy, vertical below middle; the 

 outer crenulate, strongly but narrowly excurved beyond cell, then bent inwards and upwards to below reniform 

 stigma, then vertically waved to inner margin; a dark oblique streak from apex to outer line at vein 5, with 

 pale grey scaling below it ; orbicular stigma a black dot ; reniform with blackish outline ; in the $, towards 

 anal angle two superimposed round spots edged with dark, subunita Guen. (68 d), sometimes filled up with subunila. 

 orange or white, removens Walk., (= trajecta Walk.) ( 68 d) and enclosing chestnut brown rings or spots ; hindwing removens. 

 with crenulate outer line and obscure subterminal cloud ; fringe in both wings tipped with white ; underside with 

 dark Linear cellspots, and crenulate outer line speckled with white. Occurs in Assam, Sikkim, Ceylon, the 

 Andainans, the Malay peninsula, Borneo, Java, Hainan, the Moluccas, Celebes, the Louisiades, New Guinea, 

 and Queensland. 



37. Genus Critliote Walk. 



Tongue developed; irons flat and smooth; palpi upcurved in front of face, the second segment thick 

 and broad, the third short, button-shaped; antennae of <$ bipectinate with short branches; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled; dorsum clothed with coarse hairs; anal tufts large; tibiae without spines; mid tibiae mode- 

 rately hairy; hind tibiae and tarsi with extraordinarily developed tufts of hair; forewing with costa straight, 

 but arched towards apex which is subacute; termen oblique, slightly curved; hindwing large, the apex produced 

 and acute; the termen nearly straight, but faintly bent at vein 2. Type C. horridipes Walk. 



Sect. II. Termen of hindwing rounded; a fringed lobe at base of inner 

 marginofforewing. 



C. prominens Leech. Forewing grey with a pink tinge; the median third, except along costa, dark prominens. 

 chocolate brown; its inner edge oblique and defined by the inner line, its outer cliff use ; a small patch of paler 

 ground colour reappears on inner margin ; apical area with some fuscous suffusion, inwardly limited by an ob- 

 lique dark line; outer line defined only towards costa; hindwing fuscous grey. Described from a single c? taken 

 at Changyang, Central China. 



38. Genus Episparis Walk. 

 Tongue present ; irons with a short tuft ; palpi erect in front of face, rough-scaled, the third segment quite 



