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KOTODONTIDJE. 



The palest and smallest form ( d 1 46 millim.) is from Madras, in 

 which all the black markings are slender ; the hind wing pure 

 white with small marginal black specks ; liturata (62 millim.) has 



Fig. 94. — Centra liturata, J. \. 



the black ring-mark round the discocellular line of the fore wing 

 incomplete, the hind wing slightly suffused with fuscous, except at 

 base ; ivisei ( 5 90 millim.) has the antemedial band of the fore 

 wing wider, the ring round the discocellular line complete, the 

 hind wing wholly, but slightly, suffused with black ; damodara (70 

 millim.), from China and Bengal, has the abdomen almost wholly 

 black, the black ring-mark of fore wing sometimes filled in with 

 black ; kandyia, from Ceylon (60 millim.), is again rather darker, 

 the hind wing being blacker. 



Hah. China ; Sikhim ; Assam ; Bombay ; Madras ; Ceylon. 

 Exp., c? 46-70, $ 62-90 millim. 



277. Centra prasana, Moore, P. Z. 3. 1865, p. 812; C. $ S. no. 1125. 



c? . Differs from liturata in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 white, with hardly a trace of black markings ; the terminal seg- 

 ments of abdomen black with a white anal tuft. Fore wing with 

 pale centres to the ante- and postmedial bands, the latter inter- 

 rupted at middle ; some black strigae from costa, and minute specks 

 near base ; the dentate lines absent. 



Bab. N.E. Bengal. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus DAMATA. 

 Damata, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1044 (1855). 



Type, D. longipennis, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Naga Hills ; Cambodia. 



Palpi porrect and hairy. Antennae with the branches very long 

 and ceasing abruptly one-fourth from apex. Fore wing long and 

 narrow ; vein 5 from just below the angle of cell ; 6 and 10 from 

 end of areole, which is formed by 9 anastomosing with 7 and 8. 

 Hind wing with vein 5 from near upper angle of cell ; 6 and 7 

 stalked ; 8 running close along 7 to towards the end of cell. 



