150 



NOTODONTID.E. 



brownish grey, with indistinct ante- and postmedial pale waved 

 lines ; a subinarginal series of rust-red spots with pale lunules 

 inside them. Hind wing whitish, with the costal and inner areas 



Fig. 91. — Stauropus alternus, $ . T . 



brown ; both wings with a marginal series of pale and red-brown 

 lunules. Underside brown. 



2 with the hind wing uniform brown. 



The form albescens, from Bombay and Ganjam, is more uniform 

 pale grey ; the hind wing hardly suffused with brown. 



Larva dark red-brown ; a pale dorsal line ; grey subdorsal 

 streaks on 5th and 6th somites ; paired dorsal prominences on 6th 

 to 8th somites ; the terminal somite swollen and carried over the 

 back, with two angular processes from the extremity ; the anal 

 prolegs absent ; 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs long. 



Hah. Sylhet ; Bombay ; Ganjam ; Canara ; Ceylon ; Rangoon ; 

 Java. Exp., <$ 44, $ 62 milliin. 



262. Stauropus sikkimensis, Moore, P. Z. S. I860, p. 811, pi. 43, fig. 5 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1132. 

 Stauropus berberisae, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 400 ; Butl. III. Het. 

 vii, pi. 125, fig. 4 ; C. $■ S. no. 1130 a. 



c? . Differs from alternus in the antemedial line of the fore 

 wing being more irregular, the postmedial line more curved and 

 less dentate, and both with dark outlines ; a spot of dark raised 

 scales below the middle of the cell, two towards the end of it ; 

 two subinarginal series of spots of dark raised scales and marginal 

 lunular series. Hind wing whitish, the costal area dark. 



$ darker than the male. 



Typical silcMmensis, from Sikhim, has the base of fore wing 

 greyish ; the medial area of fore wing and costa of hind wing 

 suffused with dark green ; in berberisce, from Kangra, the fore wing 

 is wholly suffused with brown. 



Larva similar to that of alternus. 



Hab. Kangra ; TJmballa ; Sikhim. Exp., rf 44 ; 5 60 millim. 



263. Stauropus dentilinea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 60, pi. 141, fig. 10. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and fuscous. Fore wing grey, 

 irrorated with fuscous scales, and slightly suffused with brown on 



