ISO cymatophobid-j:. 



on costa with white inner edges ; the waved lines as in derasa. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 44 million. 



Genus THYATIRA. 

 Thyatira, Hiibn. Verz. p. 236 (1816). 



Type, T. batis, Linn. 



Range. Europe ; Palaearctic Asia ; Himalayas ; Borneo ; Java. 



Palpi upturned, the first two joints heavily fringed with hair, 

 the third joint of moderate length and naked : antennae ciliated ; 

 collar and patagia fringed with long hair; third segment of 

 abdomen with a tuft of dark scales. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded ; thickly scaled ; vein 6 from the angle of cell ; 9 and 10 

 stalked, and almost anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form a short 

 areole. Hind wing with vein 5 from near the lower angle of 

 cell. 



329. Thyatira batis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 836 ; Buckler, Larva Brit. 



Butt. Moths, pi. 54, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 1524. 

 Thyatira cognata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 406 ; Butl. Ill, Het. vii, 



pi. 125, fig. 12. 

 Thyatira decorata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 328, pi. 37, fig. 1 ; 



C. § S. no. 1625. 

 Thyatira vicina, Chum. Noct, i, p. 13. 



Head and thorax pinkish white, with fine brown lines. Fore 

 wing brown ; a large basal pink patch with two brown spots on 

 it towards inner margin, and bordered by a black line ; two pinkish 



Fig. 112. — Thyatira batis, J. \. 



patches below the costa towards apex, one on inner margin, and a 

 larger one with brown centre at outer angle, with a small spot on 

 the margin above it; some waved medial and postmedial lines. 

 Hind wing and abdomen fuscous. 



The variety cognata is without the pink patch on inner margin 

 of fore wing, and has' a waved marginal black line ; decorata, from 

 Sikhim, has an extra pinkish spot in the cell of the fore wing, a 

 smaller one beyond, and a more complete marginal series ; the 



