BISTON. DAT 
3. Grey, suffused and irrorated with fuscous and rufous; frons 
and thorax reddish brown; vertex of head and collar whitish. 
Fore wing with a rufous patch at base; an obliquely curved ante- 
medial line angled inwards above vein 1; traces of a medial line 
and spot at end of cell; a postmedial crenulate line angled at 
vein 6; a rufous patch on apical part of costa; an indistinct pale 
crenulate submarginal line. Hind wing with traces of antemedial 
line; spot at end of cell; postmedial series of specks and sub- 
marginal pale line. Underside with a prominent black spot at 
end of cell of each wing. 
2 with hardly a trace of rufous. 
Hab. Japan; Sikhim; Khdsis; Bassein, Burma; Java. Lzp., 
3 70-80, 2 50-90 millim. 
_B. (Buzura). Antenne of male bipectinate with short stiff branches. 
| 3357. Biston suppressaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 210. 7 
Buzura multipunctaria, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1531; C. & S. no. 8254. 
Buzura strigaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 416; td. Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
pl. 188, figs. 1, 1 a, 6, e (larva); C. & S. no. 3255. 
Grey, irrorated with black; the head ochreous; thorax and 
abdomen with yellow bars. Fore wing with waved yellow ante- 
medial band; both wings with irregularly sinuous indistinct yellow 
medial line excurved beyond cell of fore wing; an ill-defined post- 
medial maculate band angled at vein 5 of both wings, with some 
yellow spots beyond it and often some black suffusion at middle of 
outer margin of fore wing ; a marginal series of yellow spots. 
Larva dark green, with dark somital bands and slight sublateral 
lie ; the spiracles white ringed with red and with red centres ; 
tubercle on Ist somite and legs purple; larva of female paler 
green. Food-plant Cassia auriculata. 
Hab. Japan; Kangra; Sikhim; Assam; Calcutta; Ceylon. 
Exp., 5 60-70, 2 74-80 millim. 
3358. Biston varianaria, Swink. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 425; C. & S. 
no. 3255 A. 
Buzura panterinaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 454 (nee Brem. § 
Grey). 
Differs from suppressaria in the ground-colour being ochreous, 
thickly covered with purplish-fuscous spots. 
Hab. Mhow; Poona; N. Canara. Lap., § 52, 2 80 millim. 
C. (Cusiala). Antenne of male with very short branches, with 
fasciculated cilia at ther ends. 
3309. Biston bengaliaria, Gwen. Phal. i, p. 210, pl. 4, fig. 2; C.& S. 
no. 3250. / 
Amphidasis contectaria, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1529; C) GVS. 
no. 3252. 
White, suffused with ochreous and irrorated and striated with 
