ACIDALIA,—CHRYSOCRASPEDA. 443 
a crimson band; vertex of head and shaft of antenne white. Fore 
wing with antemedial series of specks; medial purple-suttused 
crimson patches at end of cell and above inner margin ; two large 
patches covering the greater part of the outer area. Hind wing 
with cell-spot and purple patch on inner area; submarginal patches 
below apex and near anal angle. 
Hab. Sikhim. ap. 38 millin. 
" Genus CHRYSOCRASPEDA, nov. 
Type, C. abhadraca, W1k. 
Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, aa Burma. 
Palpi minute and hardly reaching the frons. Fore wing with 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 7, 8,9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind 
wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or on a short stalk. 
Szor. I. Antenne of male bipectinate to three-fourths length; 
hind tibize with two pairs of spurs; hind wing with veins 6, 7 
from angle of cell or ona short stalk. 
A. Wings with the outer margin evenly rounded. 
a. Lore wing with the apex not produced. 
3917. Chrysocraspeda mitigata, Wik. Cat. xxii. p. 664; C. & &. 
no. 3976. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson; wings orange, slightly 
irrorated with crimson. Fore wing with the base crimson; a 
crimson medial band; three submarginal spots and one on margin 
below middle. Hind wing with the base crimson; a very large 
patch on inner area from before middle to near anal angle and 
extending to vein 6. 
Hab. Moulmein. Hap. 22 millim. 
3918. Chrysocraspeda plumbeofusa, Swink. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, 
p- 1386. 
$. Red, with darker striz ; antenne pinkish; the head, thorax, 
the fore wing except beyond the cell, and the base of hind wing 
suffused with leaden grey. Fore wing with large black discocellular 
lunule. Hind wing with white discocellular spot; both wings 
with the cilia golden yellow. Underside of fore wing suffused 
with purplish fuscous except the apical one-third ; hind wing pale. 
Hab. Khasis. Hxp. 28 millim. 
b. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute. 
3919. Chrysocraspeda abhadraca, Wik. Cat. xxii, p. 636; Moore, 
Lep. Ceyl. iii, pl. 199, figs. 3.3a; C.§ S. no. 3550. 
Brown; the head, thorax, and abdomen suffused with crimson ; 
metathorax with two white specks. Fore wing with a diffused 
subbasal band of pale pink not reaching the costa and with 
some dark specks on it; a small dark annulus at end of cell; 
