438 



NOCTUTDJE. 



tibia? hairy and without spines, 

 what arched towards apex. 



Fore wing with the costa some- 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint minute. 



2356. Trisnla variegata, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 420. pi. 12 a, fig. 1, 

 & pi. 22, figs. 1,1 a, lb (larva) ; C. 8? S. no. 1331. 



Palpi and frons rufous ; vertex of head and collar pale ; thorax 

 rufous, the metathoracic tuft black; abdomen pale, with the long 

 hair on proximal segments rufous. Pore wing pale, variegated 

 with rufous and fuscous ; indistinct double waved subbasal and 

 anteraedial lines ; the reniform indistinct ; a double dentate post- 

 medial line, highly excurved beyond cell, then incurved below it. 

 and with some rufous patches beyond it ; an oblique black band 

 across apical area ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing 



Pig. 248. — Trisula variegata, S • h 



yellowish white, with a large blackish spot at end of cell ; a curved 

 postmedial band with traces of a line inside it towards inner 

 margin; the area beyond it more or less suffused with fuscous; 

 the cilia rufous. 



Larva clothed with rather sparse tufts of long hair. Head 

 blackish, the frons pale ; thoracic segments pale, the others red- 

 brown, with numerous blue warts. Pood-plant, Ficus religiosa. 

 It forms a cocoon covered with extraneous matter, stones, excre- 

 ment, etc. 



Hob. Throughout India and Ceylon. Exp., J 78, £ 80-104 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi slender, with the 3rd joint longer. 



2357. Trisula ? boarmoides, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 923 ; C. $ 8. 



no. 2360. 



5 . Grey-brown. Pore wing with double antemedial and post- 

 medial sinuous black lines, the latter joined by an oblique streak 

 from the apex; traces of waved subbasal, medial, and submarginal 



