ABRAXAS.— DILOPHODES. 305 
Head and thorax clothed with black-brown and leaden scales ; 
abdomen and wings yellowish white. Fore wing with the basal 
area brown, irrorated with leaden scales and narrowing to inner 
margin; traces of a medial series of specks; a postmedial brown 
band diffused outwards to the margin except at apex, its inner 
edge sinuous and with a lead-coloured line on edge of band; a 
waved white submarginal line with some grey inside it. Hind 
wing with dark speck at end of cell; some striz on inner margin ; 
a pale fuscous diffused postmedial band, with a crenulate white 
line on its outer edge. 
Hab. Europe; N.W. Himalayas. xp. 26-30 millim. 
Genus DILOPHODES. 
Dilophodes, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 416 (1894). 
Type, D. elegans, Butl. 
Range. Japan; Khasis. 
Palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons and fringed with 
hair below ; antennz of male with two pairs of minute fasciculated 
serrations to each joint; coxe of each pair of legs tufted with 
black hair, hind tibia with a tuft from base and paired lateral tufts 
on the base of abdomen. fore wing of male with fovea; vein 3 
from before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and 11 stalked, and 
connected by a bar with 7, 8,9; 10 and 11 anastomose with 12, 
or 11 anastomoses with 12, then again with 10; 12 sometimes 
eae at extremity. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle 
of cell. 
3539. Dilophodes elegans, Buti. Ill. Het. ii, p. 53, pl. 37, fig. 6. 
Abraxas khasiana, Swink. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 17. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen orange, spotted with black; wings 
white, with black markings. Fore wing with the spots covering 
the greater part of the surface, and consisting of basal spots, ante- 
medial and medial bands, which coalesce below the cell, a curved 
postmedial series of smaller spots, and submarginal and marginal 
Fig. 142.—Dilophodes elegans, G. }. 
series often coalescing and interrupted between veins 3 and 4. 
Hind wing with spot at end of cell; spots on inner margin; an 
interrupted submarginal series of large spots and marginal series ' 
of small spots. 
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