346 DREPATTOLID^. 



lines ; a black spot in the cell ; a pale postmedial band with waved 

 edges ; a dark speck on the costa before the apex. Hind wing 

 paler, with the lines nearly straight, two antemedial, four post- 

 medial, and one submarginal line being prominent, the outer 

 margin excised between the apex and the much-produced angle 

 at vein 6. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. Type in coll. Knyvett. 



Genus DRAPETODES. 



Drapetodes, Giten. Sp. Gen. Lep. Phal. i, p. 424 (1857). 



Type, D. mitaria, Guen. 



Range. Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Singapore. 



Palpi slender and upturned, reaching vertex of head, the thud 

 joint short ; proboscis present. Antennae thickened and flattened 

 in both sexes. Legs naked ; mid tibia with one pair, hind tibia 

 with two pairs of long spurs. Frenulum absent. Pore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; vein 6 from below the angle of cell ; 7 from 

 the angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. 



748. Drapetodes mitaria, Guen. Sp. Gen. Lep. Phal. i, p. 424; C. $ S. 



no. 3590. 

 Drapetodes fratercula, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 541, pi. 200, figs. 1, 



1 a (larva) ; C. $ 8. no. 3589. 

 Anisodes ? platycerata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1586. 



Pulvous yellow. Pore wing with a plumbeous line below the 

 costa of fore wing from the base to 

 the apex, then passing inside the outer 

 margin to outer angle ; two indistinct 

 dentate antemedial lines ; two dark 

 specks at end of cell ; the area just 

 beyond the cell suffused with purplish 

 grey ; three obliquely-waved and curved 

 Fig. 237. lines from the costa near apex to centre 



Drapetodes mitaria, <$ . \. f inner margin, where they almost 

 meet ; the area near outer angle suf- 

 fused with purplish grey. Hind wing with two subbasal lines ; a 

 broad medial purplish-grey band with dark edges, three waved 

 lines beyond it, and a leaden submarginal line. 



The form fratercula, from Sikhim, the Nagas, and Ceylon, has the 

 basal area of both wings, the apex of fore wing, and outer area of 

 hind wing very pale yellow, and aU the markings well defined ; the 

 meso- and metathorax and abdomen pale, the last with dark 

 bands. 



Larva pale salmon-pink; head pale yellow, with two brown 

 transverse bands ; anal somite tapering to a bifid point, each somite 

 with six small setaceous glandular spines. Dorsal surface of 1st, 

 2nd, and 3rd somites dull' green, of 4th, 5th, 10th, and 11th dark 

 brown ; lateral area of 6th to 9th yellow ; a lateral series of six 



