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on the surface. The moths fly by day and rest with the wings 

 held horizontal. 



Hab. Indo-Malayan Subregion. Three Indian species. 



Key to the Species. 



Imagines. 



<$, posterior abdominal sternites primrose- 

 yellow ; $, thorax not yellow ; <£ $, 



abdomen with a number of yellow patches [p. 250. 



or without yellow scaling S. tagalica Boisd., 



Posterior abdominal sternites yellow only at [p. 253. 



sides ; $, thorax yellow S. Infernalis (Westw.), 



Posterior abdominal segments not yellow ; <J 9> 



thorax and fore wing upperside drab-grey. S. scotti Jord., p. 257. 



Larvae. [p< 25 4. 



Face pale green, rest of head darker green S. Inf emails (Westw.), 



Face green, rest of head whitish S. tagalica Boisd., 



[p. 257. 

 Pup 88. 

 Cremaster with ventral extensor ridges ; [p. 257. 



ending in a simple point S. tagalica Boisd., 



Cremaster without extensor ridges ; ending [p. 255. 



in a shortly bifid point S. inf emails (Westw.), 



The larva and pupa of S. scotti have not been described in 

 sufficient detail to fit them into the key. 



74. Sataspes inf emails (Westw.). 



Imago. — <£$. Thorax yellow above, except for a black, ill- 

 defined, transverse band anteriorly on mesonotum ; some- 

 times the centre of thorax more or less black. The yellow 

 band of abdomen occasionally reduced, seldom altogether 

 absent. 



$. Tenth tergite (fig. 65 B) with the lobes compressed, 

 pointed, slightly curved downwards, somewhat sabre-shaped, 

 upper edge rough with notches near middle. Lobe of harpe 

 truncate, the ventral edge acuminate, tooth pointed, plate 

 large (fig. 65 C) . 



Hab. Indo-Malayan (Subregion. Two Indian forms. 



Sataspes infernalis f. infernalis Westw. (Fig. 65 A, <£, 

 B, C, genitalia ; PI. X, figs. 4, 5. larva, fig. 6, pupa. 



Sesla Infernalis, Westwood, 1848, p. 61, pi. xxx, fig. 3 (Silhet). 



Sataspes Infernalis Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887, p. 1 (Sibsagar ; Buxa ; 

 Silhet); Hampson, 1892, p. 121, fig. 70 (6*) (part.); Dudgeon, 

 1898, p. 419 (Sikkim & Bhutan, up to 4,000 feet). 



Sataspes Infernalis f. Infernalis Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 472. 



Sataspes Infernalis Infernalis, Jordan, 1911, p. 249, t. 40 e ; Seitz, 

 1929, p. 546. 



Imago. — <£2. Abdomen with a more or less broad yellow 

 band on sixth and seventh tergites ; the other tergites generally 



