FASCELLINA, 2295 
dyes hairy; palpi stout and reaching vertex of head, the 1st 
joint hairy, the 3rd minute; antenne with cilia and bristles ; 
abdomen stout; hind tibie not dilated. Fore wing with the 
costa arched towards apex; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 
from above middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before 
upper angle; 10 and 11 stalked and joined by bars to 12 and 8, 9 
Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. 
Sect. I. Fore wing with the outer and inner margins excised to- 
wards outer angle; hind wing with the costa and apex more 
or less truncate and excised. 
A. Cilia non-crenulaée. 
' 3296. Fascellina chromataria, Wik. Cat. xx, p. 215; Hnepsn. Ill. 
Di oa eer: ix, pl. 168, fig. 2; CG S. no. 2821. 45 
Fascellina celata, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1554. 
Fascellina olivataria, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1555. 
Fascellina clausaria, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1556. 
Geometra usta, Wik. Cat. KXXV, p. 1602 C.§ S. no. 3212. 
Fascellina castanea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, pi: G12 5) Cop GS: 
no. 2820, 
Fascellina ceylonica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 394, pl. 187, figs. 3, 
3 a (larva). 
d- Deep Getened 
with an olive shade and 
slightly suffused with pur- 
plish grey; wings with 
dark striz. Fore wing 
with the costa greyish; an 
oblique antemedial line 
angled below costa; a 
yellowish spot at end otf 
cell often with a hyaline 
centre; traces of a post- 
medial line; a curved and waved purplish-grey submarginal line 
angled below costa, and on the hind wing becoming postmedial. 
Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, the outer 
brown, bright red-brown inside the postmedial line, which is 
prominent, purple, and angled, or with a quadrate sinus below 
costa and often waved towards inner margin. Hind wing yellow, 
suffused and striated with rufous on outer area; indistinct post- 
medial and curved crenulate submarginal line. 
©. Redder. 
Larva purplish black; the thoracic segments with irregular 
purple-red markings; 4th to 6th and anal segment with dorsal red 
markings and paired red papille; head cleft and produced to two 
papille. Food-plant Cinnamomea. 
Hab. Sikhim; Assam; Nilgiris; Ceylon; Tenasserim; Anda- 
mans; Sumatra; Celebes. Hwp., 5 38, 2 44 millim. 
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Fig. 123.—Fascellina chromataria, 6. }. 
