544 NOCTUIDjE. 



outwards ; a yellow patch at lower angle of cell and an irregular 

 white spot on the discocellulars ; an indistinct medial dark hne 

 excurved round cell ; a pale sinuous postmedial line arising from 

 a white spot on costa ; a yellow apical patch ; a pale patch on 

 outer area, with a chocolate lunule on the margin below apex. 

 Hind wing with dark mark on discocellulars ; indistinct angled 



Fig. 304. — Episparis varialis, tf . i. 



fuscous medial line ; a white postmedial line highly angled beyond 

 cell ; a chocolate lunule on the margin below apex, with a series 

 of spots from it to anal angle. Underside whitish. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans ; Java; 

 Borneo. Exp. 50 millim. 



2615. Episparis sora, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 415. 



<$ . Differs from varialis in being much darker brown. Fore 

 wing with a series of yellow spots on costa ; the white spot and 

 yellow patch at end of cell minute ; the submarginal line dark ; 

 no lunule or white suffusion on outer margin. Hind wing with 

 the postmedial line dark and more angled ; no white suffusion. 

 Hab. Sikhim ; Tenasserim. Exp. 52 millim. 



Genus CLATERNA. 



Claterna, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1543 (1858). 

 Trigonia, Guen. Belt. 8f Pyr. p. 11 (1854), prseocc. 



Type, 0. cydonia, Cram. 



Range. Ceylon ; Java ; Celebes. 



Differs from Episparis in the palpi having the 3rd joint longer ; 

 the antennae of male ciliated. Hind wing with the outer margin 

 angled instead of being produced to a point ; female with the outer 

 margin of both wings very slightly angled. 



2616. Claterna cydonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i, pi. 22, F; C. fy S. 



no. 2843. 

 Focilla submemorans, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1533. 

 Claterna exagens, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1543. 



Fuscous brown ; the tarsi white. Fore wing with indistinct 

 antemedial curved bluish-white line, with some diffused white scales 

 near it ; a white line on discocellulars ; a postmedial line ex- 



