414 



NOCTFID^. 



the outer margin between veins 1 b and 2 ; veins 3 and 4 stalked, 

 5 from lower angle of cell. 



2313. Arthisma scissuralis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 20 ; Waterh. Aid, 

 ii,pl. 150 ; fig. 3; C. Sf S. no. 2235. 



Bright red or brownish ochreous. Fore wing with a yellow 

 antemedial spot below the cell ; an indistinct speck in the cell and 



Fig. 229. — Arthisma scissuralis, <$ . {. 



one at each angle ; an ill-defined postmedial series of yellow lunules 

 incurved below end of cell. Hind wing with traces of a medial 

 yellowish band. 



Hab. Rangoon ; Bhamo ; Singapore. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus FALANA. 

 Falana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 153 (1882). 



Type, F. sordida, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 long and naked ; antennas bipectinated in male, the branches short ; 

 metathorax with slight tufts ; abdomen with dorsal tuft on first 

 segment, keeled below, with pairs of flattened scale-like plates ; 

 femora with tufts of scales at base ; fore tibiae fringed with hair ; 

 mid and hind tibiae with medial and distal tufts. Fore wing with 

 the apex acute ; the outer margin excised below apex, and produced 

 to a rounded lobe at centre and point at vein 2 ; a tuft of scales 

 forming a boss at base above inner margin ; the areole very small ; 

 vein 6 from some way below angle of cell. Hind wing with the 

 costa arched at base ; veins 3, 4 on a short stalk ; 5 from below 

 centre of discoceilulars. 



2314. Falana sordida, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 154; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 155, fig. 4; C.SfS. no. 2248. 



Yinous red-brown ; the tuft on hind femora white. Fore wing 

 irrorated with black ; broad ill-defined subbasal and medial pur- 

 plish bands ; an indistinct antemedial dark line ; hyaline specks at 

 angles of cell ; an indistinct postmedial waved line excurved round 

 cell ; a black subapical spot ; the cilia chestnut. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous ; the cilia chestnut. Underside of fore wing with the 



