SPICA. — THYMISTADA. 



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close together ; mid tibiae with one pair of spurs, hind tibiae with 

 two pairs. Pore wing with vein 6 from just above angle of cell ; 

 7 and 10 from the areole, 8 and 9 from end of it ; frenulum 

 present. 



742. Spica luteola, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 424, pi. 44, fig. 10. 



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Fig. 233. — Spica luteola, <$ . ] 

 Hob. Sikhiin. Exp. 34 millim. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 orange-yellow. Fore wing yellow, 

 irrorated with orange scales ; an 

 angled ferruginous antemedial 

 line ; an oblique postmedial line ; 

 reniform outlined with ferrugi- 

 nous ; a curved submarginal line : 

 an oblique apical streak. Hind 

 wing pale ochreous. 



Genus THYMISTADA. 



Thyinistada, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 515 (1865). 



Type, T. tripunctata, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi slender, upturned and reaching vertex of head ; proboscis 

 present. Antennas with the branches long in male. Mid tibia 

 with one pair of long spurs ; hind tibia with two pairs. Frenulum 

 present. Fore wing with the apex falcate and pointed ; outer margin 

 angled at vein 3 ; veins 6, 7, and 10 from the areole, which is 

 large and formed by the anastomosis of 8 and 9. Hind wing with 

 the inner margin deeply excised at anal angle. 



743. Thymistada tripunctata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 515; C. fy S. 

 no. 1234. 

 Erosia cervinaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 646 ; C. $ S. no. 3052. 



Head red-brown ; thorax, abdomen, and fore wing dark pur- 

 plish brown ; the last with waved 

 dark antemedial, postmedial, and 

 submarginal lines, in some speci- 

 ,/ mens, with a few grey scales on 

 ■ . their outer edges ; three dark 

 specks on the discocellulars ; 

 costa and outer margin red- 

 brown ; cilia black, with pale 

 tips. Hind wing pale fuscous ; 

 a dark patch at anal angle, with 

 a bent line of white scales on it ; 

 cilia pale at apical area, black with pale tips towards anal 

 angle. 



Fig. 234. 



Thymistada tripunctata, $ . 



