492 LYMANTRIID.E. 



Genus CISPIA. 



Cispia, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 857 (1855). 

 Caltura, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 401. 



Type, 0. punctifascia, "Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam : Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint long and fringed with hair, the 3rd 

 minute ; or the palpi rarely minute. Antennas bipectinate in both 

 sexes, the branches long. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from close 

 to angle of cell : 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 being 

 given off from nearer the cell or from the same point as 7. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle, 5 from above it. 



Sect. I. Hind tibia? with two pairs of spurs. Hind wing with 

 veins 6 and 7 from cell. 



1125. Cispia punctifascia, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 857 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, 

 pi. 113, fig. 3 ; C. # S. no. 926. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange. Antennas black, the shaft 

 white at sides ; collar, thorax, and tegulse black spotted ; abdomen 



Fig. 327. — Cispia punctifascia, $. \. 



with a lateral series of black spots ; legs marked with black. Tore 

 wing brownish orange, the veins pale yellow ; two black subbasal 

 spots ; an orange medial band edged by red-brown strigas in the 

 interspaces, with a pale line outside them. Hind wing orauge, 

 with a curved postmedial maculate band from the costa to vein 2 

 on underside. 



Sab. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam; Ceylon. Exp., S 50, $ 70 millim. 



1126. Cispia venosa, Wlk. Tram. Era. Soc. (3) i, 1862, p. 264 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 928. 



Differs from punctifascia in being bright orange. Fore wing 

 bright orange, the band broader and the strigae edging it only 

 slightly darker than the ground-colour. Underside of both wiugs 

 with a fuscous maculate band, the apex of fore wing fuscous. 



Hab. Sikhim. Eaap. 70 millim. 



