GANDARITIS,—PHYSETOBASIS. 385 
In the Japanese fiwseni, Brem., there are no secondary sexual 
characters on the fore wing ; in dotata, Linn., from Europe, flavata, 
agnes, Butl., and another undescribed species from Japan, vein 2 
of the fore wing is much curved in the male, with a small hair- 
fringed hyaline scar below its middle, through the centre of which 
runs the aborted vein 1 ¢, which is much bent, bearing a row of 
sharp spines probably for producing sound; below this scar is a 
large shallow fovea, slightly developed in flavata, more strongly in 
agnes, which has the discocellulars of hind wing angled and vein 5 
from below their middle, as is the case also in dotata. 
| 3741. Gandaritis flavata, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 660; Waterh. Aid, 
| pl. 184, fig. 7; C. § S. no. 3836. 
$. Bright orange-yellow. Fore wing slightly suffused with 
fuscous, except on the apical costal area, which is paler yellow; 
two indistinct subbasal waved lines ; a medial line sinuous from 
costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; traces of a 
line beyond it; a postmedial line with traces of a line inside it, 
very highly angled on vein 5, where it is met by an oblique streak 
Fig. 181.— Gandaritis flavata, 3. 1 
from apex ; traces of a pale waved submarginal line. Hind wing 
with traces of waved and curved medial and postmedial lines. 
In the Chinese specimen on the hind wing a curved black medial 
band is developed, running up the median nervure to the base, and 
prominent lunulate, black, postmedial and submarginal bands. 
Hab. Nankow Pass, China; Khasis. Hap. 76 millim. 
Genus PHYSETOBASIS, nov. 
Type, P. annulata, Hmpsn. 
Range. N. W. Himalayas; Khasis; Nilgiris. 
Palpi slender and hardly reaching beyond the frons, which is 
rounded; antennz of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; 
hind tibize with two pairs of spurs. [ore wing narrow and elon- 
gate; the outer margin very oblique; male with the retinaculum 
a large spatulate plate ; a deep groove on the underside at base of 
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