PHALERA. 



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Genus PHALERA. 



Phalera, Hiibn. Ver: 



p. 146 (1816). 



Type, P. bucephala, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; throughout India and Burma ; 

 Java. 



Palpi upturned, the first two joints clothed with hair, the third 

 short and naked ; antennae fasciculate in male, ciliate in female ; 

 abdomen long. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 5 given off 

 from near upper angle of cell ; 6 from beyond the angle ; 9 and 

 10 anastomosing strongly with 8. Hind wing with vein 5 from 

 below angle of cell ; 6 and 7 on a long stalk ; 8 running close along 

 7 before the end of cell. 



217. Phalera parivala, Moore, Lep. E. I. 

 vi, pi. 103, fig. 2 ; C.&S. no. 1518. 



Co. p. 434 ; Butl. III. Het. 



S . Palpi dark brown ; frons chestnut ; vertex of head buff- 

 coloured ; thorax buff, fringed with dark brown ; the tegulas grey, 

 mixed with brown ; abdomen brown, some specimens with indistinct 

 fuscous segmental bands. Pore wing dark brown, with traces of 

 waved dark lines ; the basal and outer areas suffused with grey ; 



Fig. 79. — Phalera parivala, rf. \. 



basal area defined by an indistinct w T aved rufous line ; orbicular and 

 reniform spots somewhat indistinct ; a large apical brownish-buff 

 patch extending as a series of lunulate submarginal marks to vein 3 ; 

 an indistinct waved submarginal black line ; cilia bright chestnut. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia chequered white and fuscous. 

 Hal. Sikhim ; Nilgiris. Exp. 80-90 millim. 



