ARCHERNIS. 379' 



the length of the inner. Fore wing with the apex acute ; veins 3 

 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 10 closely approximated to 8, 9. 

 Hind wing with the cell short ; the discocellulars erect ; veins 3, 

 4, 5 radiating from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anas- 

 tomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. (Protonoceras). Male with a tuft of forwardly-directed hair 

 between the antennas ; antennae with the basal joint dilated, 

 the shaft given off from its outer side, much bent near base? 

 then with some small serrations on inner side and with long 

 cilia. 



A. Antennce of male with a long curved tuft of hair from the inner 

 side of basal joint ; the tuft betiveen the antennce long. 



5089. Archernis tropicalis, Wile. Cat. xviii, p. 670 ; Moore, Lep. CeyL 



iii, pi. 181, fig. 9 ; C. $ S. no. 4276. 



Fuscous : palpi white below at base ; frons and basal joint of 



antenna? white. Fore wing 

 with curved dark antemedial 

 line ; a prominent dark-edged 

 white discocellular lunule ; a 

 sinuous postmedial line ex- 

 curved from costa to vein 2, 

 where it is bent inwards, then 

 Fig. 205.— Archernis tropicalis, <$. \. out again, slightly outlined 



with white and by a prominent 

 white patch from costa to vein 6 ; cilia tipped with white except at 

 middle. Hind wing with discocellular dark lunule with white spot 

 on its outer side ; a white-edged postmedial line bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2 ; the cilia white-tipped except at apex and 

 middle. Underside entirely suffused with white. 



Eab. Formosa ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; 

 Tenasserim. Exp. 22-30 millim. 



B. Antennce of male without the curved tuft from based joint ; 

 the fronted tuft less developed. 



5090. Archernis dolopsalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 692. 

 Protonoceras fuscilunalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 131, pi. 155, 



fig. 22. 



Differs from tropicalis in the fore wing having a dark spot in the 

 cell and dark discocellular lunule ; hind wing with no white spot 

 beyond the discocellular lunule. 



The typical male form from Ceylon and Borneo has the frontal 

 tuft rufous and more developed than in the Nilgiri form fusci- 

 lunalis, and on the fore wing has a white spot between the two 

 cell-spots. 



Eab. JSTilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo. Exp. 26-34 millim. 



