184 PYEALID^E. 



with scales in front ; mid and hind tibiae of male with the outer 

 spurs short. Tore wing with the costa nearly straight ; the inner 

 and outer margins forming a nearly even curve ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with the discocellulars 

 highly angled ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from slightly 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinated for two-thirds length. 



A. (Palura). Fore wing with vein 9 given off from 8 beyond 7. 



a. Fore tuing with vein 5 widely separate from 4 at base. 



4622. Constantia vulgaris, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 621 ; C. $ 8. 



no. 4522. 



Pale brown irrorated with black. Pore wing with whitish 

 antemedial band with black inner edge from the cell to inner 

 margin aud with two curves in it ; two blackish marks in end of 

 cell ; the postmedial band arising from a whitish spot on costa 

 near apex, then fuscous and curved inwards to lower angle of cell 

 and terminating in a whitish dentate mark above inner margin ; 

 the margin and cilia with a moniliform white and brown band. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia white at tips. Underside 

 greyer ; hind wing with traces of curved postmedial band. 



Hab. Aden ; Persia ; Sind. Exp., tf 22, $ 24 millim. 



b. Fore wing ivith vein 4 stalked with 5 in male, approximated 

 to it in female. 



4623. Constantia eremialis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 422. 



Brownish grey suffused with fuscous. Pore wing with 

 traces of dentate antemedial pale line and of fuscous dentate post- 

 medial line incurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then erect. 

 Underside whitish, with dark spot on costa of fore wing before 

 apex and large brown subapical patch to each wing. 



Hab. Aden ; Sind. Exp., <$ 24, $ 34 millim. 



B. (Constantia). Fore wing with vein 9 given off from 8 

 before 7 or from the same point as it. 



4624. Constantia opiparalis, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 419, pi. 44, %. 11. 



<3 . Grey-brown suffused with 

 fuscous ; abdomen whitish. 

 Pore wing with oblique 

 silvery-white subbasal mark 

 from below costa narrowing 

 to middle of inner margin ; 

 a diamond-shaped mark in 

 and below end of cell ; an 

 Fig. 110.— Constantia opiparalis, tf . \. oval spot in upper angle; 

 an oblique streak from costa near apex ; a dentate submarginal 



