160 notodontidj;. 



5 . Head, thorax, and base of fore wing ochreous white ; the 

 markings of the fore wing more distinct. 



Larva greenish white above, green below ; pale green oblique 

 lateral lines ; a grey-bordered yellow dorsal line with a red tubercle 

 on 11th somite; head black-lined; legs green. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp., <S 38, $ 44 millim. 



Genus PHEOSIA. 



Pheosia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 145 (1816). 

 Hoplitis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 147 (1816). 

 Hupodonta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx, p. 475 (1877). 



Type, P. dictcea, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; and throughout India. 



Palpi slight and porrect. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; 

 vein 5 given off just below the angle of the cell ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked, or 10 from cell ; no areole. Hind wing with veins 6 and 

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



Sect. I. Antenna? of male with short stiff branches ; the 

 terminal one-fourth filiform. 



283. Pheosia fasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 401 ; Butl. III. Het. 

 vii, pi. 125, figs. 9, 10; C. # S. no. 1207 a. 



Head and thorax grey, with a few red-brown hairs ; abdomen 

 grey. Eore wing whitish ochreous, suffused in parts with pale 



Fig. 99. — Pheosia fasciata, J . f. 



brown ; some red-brown strigae and streaks on and below the 

 costa ; a series of short streaks on the nervules towards outer 

 margin ; inner margin red-brown : cilia chequered pale and red- 

 brown. Hind wing ochreous white ; the outer margin slightly 

 clouded with brown, especially at anal angle. 



Larva pale green ; head streaked with dark red, a series of dorsal 

 quadrate red marks largest from 7th to anal somite ; the 4th to 

 anal somites in some specimens wholly striated with red-brown ; a 

 long dorsal process on 4th somite. 



Hab. Dharmsala, Sikhim. Exp., <S 42, $ 50 millim. 



