CYMATOPHORID^. 



Genus HABROSYNE. 

 Habrosyne, ffiton. Verz. p. 236 (1816). 



Type, H. derasa, Linn. 



Range. JS". America ; Europe ; Japan ; Himalayas. 



Palpi porrect, the first two joints heavily scaled, the third short 

 and naked. Antennae with the joints rather broad and flattened ; 

 collar and patagia thickly fringed with hair ; terminal segments of 

 abdomen with thick lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing with a tuft 

 of scales at outer angle ; vein 6 from angle of cell ; 7 and 8 

 stalked ; 9 and 10 stalked, and almost anastomosing with 7 and 8 

 to form a short areole. Hind wing with vein 5 from near lower 

 angle of cell. 



324. Habrosyne derasa, Linn. Syst, Nat. \, p. 851 ; Buckler, Larvce 



Brit. Butt. Moths, pi. 54, fig. 1 (larva). 

 Habrosyne fraterna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 406 ; Butl. Ill, Set. 



vii, pi. 125, fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 1629 a. 

 Gonophora indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 44 ; Waterh. Aid, i, 



pi. 9. 



Head and thorax golden brown, the collar with fine dark lines ; 

 abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing silvery grey ; a large golden- 

 brown triangular patch from the costa near base and at apex to 



Fig. 111. — Habrosyne derasa, $ . \. 



inner margin near outer angle, bordered inwardly by a white line 

 which sends a tooth obliquely towards the base ; a whitish streak 

 along the costa crossed by some waved brown lines ; small black 

 striae towards the apex ; orbicular and reniform spots with pale 

 outline ; an extremely undulated quadruple postmedial line from 

 vein 6 to near inner margin ; a slightly curved or almost straight 

 submarginal pale band ; a waved marginal pale line ; cilia pale, 

 with a dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous. 



The form indica, from Sikhim, is rather larger and brighter, 

 whilst fraterna, from . Dharmsala, is slightly greyer than the 

 European derasa. 



Larva reddish brown ; a dark dorsal line ; subdorsal round 



