HEORTIA. EFCXASTA. 363 



Genus HEORTIA. 



Heortia, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 402. 

 Tyspana, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 256 (1885). 



Type, H. dominates, Led., from the Malayan subregion. 



Range. China ; Sikhiin ; Assam ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint 

 slightly fringed with scales, the 3rd porrect ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 f rons rounded ; antennae of male almost simple ; hind tibiae with a 

 tuft of hair on outer side from base ; build stout. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; vein 1 a strongly developed ; 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is 

 approximated. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from the angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



5059. Heortia vitessoides, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 256, pi. 178, figs. 3, 

 3 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 4517. 



Head primrose-yellow ; palpi and antennae black ; thorax yellow, 

 with black stripes on vertex and tegulae ; abdomen orange, with 

 black lines on proximal segments. Fore wing primrose-yellow ; 



Fig. 193. — Heortia vitessoides, $ . \. 



two black subbasal spots ; outwardly oblique antemedial and medial 

 bands, the former not reaching inner margin, the latter broader and 

 dilated at costa and inner margin ; the interspaces of outer area 

 with broad blue-black stripes. Hind wing white, with broad blue- 

 black marginal band. 



Larva green ; the head black ; a subdorsal black line with two 

 spots on each somite below it ; the stigmata black ; the ventral 

 surface yellowish green. 



Hah. Hongkong ; Sikhim ; Sibsagar ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus ETJCLASTA. 



Euclasta, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 252. 

 Ilurgia, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 544 (1859). 



Type, E. splendidalis, Herr.-SchafL, from Syria. 



Range. Syria ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; New Guinea ; 

 Australia. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint upturned and broadly scaled in front, 

 the 3rd porrect and lying on the hair of the 2nd joint ; maxillary 



