AULACODES. 213 



Range. Neotropical region : Oriental region to Celebes. 



Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 2n 

 joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short, with a small 

 triangular tuft ; maxillary palpi as long as labial and dilated with 

 scales at extremity ; antennae of male thickened and flattened, with 

 appressed serrations ; ocelli usually indistinct ; legs very long and 

 slender ; mid tibiae of male with a tuft of long hair contained in a 

 fold ; wings long and narrow. Fore wing with vein 3 from angle 

 of cell, which has the lower part extremely produced and the 

 discocellulars very oblique; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8, 9, 10; 11 from near end of cell, touching or anastomosing with 

 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with vein 3 from before lower angle of cell, 

 which is very much produced, and the discocellulars oblique ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8, which is much curved ; 

 the outer margin excised below apex and lobed at vein 5, 



In the typical species the secondary sexual characters consist of 

 fringes of hair on fore coxae and femora, and a very long fringe on 

 eacb side of medial spur of hind tibia?. 



Sect. I. Fore and hind wings with veins 4, 5 stalked ; antennae of 

 male with no process on basal joint ; a small fovea in end of 

 cell of fore wing. 



4683. Aulacodes colonialis, Guen. Belt. 8r Pyr. p. 262 ; Snell. Tijd. v. 



Ent. xix, p. 198, pi. 8, figs. Sa-d ; C. 8f S. no. 4407. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, yellow, and fulvous. 

 Fore wing white, with the costal area fulvous ; a broad yellow 

 fascia on inner area ; a curved yellow fascia from upper angle of 

 cell to vein 2, where it is joined by a submarginal band ; a dark 

 f ulvous band between them from subcostals to vein 4 ; a yellow 

 marginal band defined by fine black lines. Hind wing white, with 

 broad oblique yellow band from below apex to middle of inner 

 margin, where it expands ; a yellow marginal band defined by fine 

 black lines from the lobe to anal angle, and with three black spots 

 below the lobe, the two upper with large silvery-white pupils. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Bombay. Exp. 24 rnillim. 



Sect. II. Fore and hind wings with veins 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 

 antennas of male with a curved clubbed process from inner 

 side of basal joint. 



A. Male with no tuft on hind femora ; fore winy ivith a small costal 

 fold at base and no costal fringe ; the tuft of scales confined to 

 end of cell and no sparse fringe on median nervure. 



4684. Aulacodes sejunctalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xix, p. 207, pi. 9, 



fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 4413. 

 Cataclysta delicata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 556. pi. 215, fig. 5 ; 

 C. $ 8. no. 4419. 



Differs from peribocalis in the postmedial triangular patch of 



