ENTOMOQ RAMMA. THERMESIA. 



533 



few strigae. Fore wing with indistinct antemedial line, angled 

 below the costa ; a dark lunule at end of cell ; an indistinct post- 

 medial line, highly angled beyond cell, and with a slightly waved 

 line beyond it; a more prominent double submarginal straight 

 line, angled below costa, where it is crossed by a fulvous streak 

 from the apex. Hind wing with indistinct antemedial straight 

 line and highly dentate medial line; a more prominent double 

 submarginal straight line ; both wings with fine ochreous marginal 

 line. Underside brighter yellow ; both wings with cell-spot and 

 three series of brown spots on outer area. 



2 with the upperside of thorax, base of abdomen, and wings 

 suffused with grey, and with the markings much more prominent. 

 Hab. Coimbatore ; Nilgiris. Exp. 50 millim. 



Sect. II. (Taramina). Male with the antenna pectinated with 

 uniseriate branches to two-thirds length, the basal part 

 thickened by a ridge of thick scales above. 



2591. Entomogramma tortum, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 204 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 166, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 2550. 

 Entomogramma squaniicornis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 115, fig. 3. 



Differs from fautrix in being reddish brown without the fuscous 

 tinge. Fore wing with no fuscous below the fulvous subcostal 

 streak ; the spot at end of cell outlined with black ; the post- 

 medial line dentate. Underside not suffused with fuscous, so that 

 the lunulate lines are prominent. 



Fig. 297. — Entomogramma tortum, $ . \. 



Hab. Throughout W. and S. India ; Ceylon ; Java. 

 54 millim. 



Exp 



Genus THERMESIA. 



Thermesia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 270 (1818). 

 Azazia, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1576 (1858). 

 Hvpospila, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 358 (1852). 

 Tochara, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 175 (1882). 

 Blasticorhinus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 46 (1893). 



Type, 1. gemmatalis, Hubn., Irom America. 



Mange. Throughout the tropical and subtropical zones ; Japan. 



