PLATYJA. 



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Genus PLATYJA. 

 Platyja, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268 (1818). 



Type, P. urnmiiiea, Cram. 



Range. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Penang ; 

 Java ; Borneo ; Cape York. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint broad, quadrately sealed and reaching 

 vertex of head, the 3rd short, blunt, and naked ; thorax and abdo- 

 men smooth, the latter clothed with long coarse hair dorsally; 

 tibiae and hind tarsi very hairy in male. Fore wing with the costa 

 highly arched towards apex, which is produced and acute ; the 

 outer margin obliquely curved. Hind wing with the cell short, the 

 anal angle truncate. 



Sect. I. Male with the antennae bipectinate, the branches short ; 

 mid and hind legs with tufts of very long hair from the femoro- 

 tibial joint. 



2606. Platyja umminea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 267, F ; C. # 8. 

 nos. 2621 & 2760. 

 Sympis subunita, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 344. 

 Cotuza drepanoides, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1552. 

 Gincea removens, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1638. 

 Hulodes falcata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 115, fig. 8. 

 Ophisma trajecta, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Lep. Het. p. 108. 



Olivaceous red-brown. Fore wing with a few grey specks ; an 

 antemedial obliquely waved dark line ; the orbicular small and dark ; 



Fig. 300. — Platyja umminea, <$ . \. 



reniform with dark outline ; a postmedial crenulate line, highly 

 excurved beyond the cell, then bent inwards to below middle of 

 cell above two dark-edged marks, which in the female are filled in 

 with ochreous, chestnut, or white, and with chestnut rings or spots ; 

 a dark streak from apex, with some grey below it. Hind wing 

 with crenulate postmedial line and traces of a submarginal line ; 

 the cilia tipped with white on both wings. Underside with lines 



