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branches are longer in the <$ than in lola, megastica and ?nesosa. On the under surface the discal transverse 
line is more S-curved than in the other species. In the $ the antemedian transverse band of the forewing is 
broadly edged with white, the hyaline spot is almost round, but outside indented, about 6—7 mm in diameter. 
Sikkim. 
8. Genus : Cricula Wkr. (Euphranor II. Schdff.) 
This genus is one of the most remarkable genera, since it combines a great resemblance of the imagines 
with an extraordinary difference of the larvae. Imagines the larvae of which were regarded as brown clothes- 
moths deposited eggs which yielded green bare larvae, and it was only by these differences that the forms belonging 
to this genus were correctly arranged. — The Cricula are middle-sized, quite unicoloured lepidoptera, the male 
forewings strongly falcate, with 2 or 3 small hyaline spots in the centre of the forewing and a but very small 
punctiform hyaline spot of the hindwing. At the costa before the apex a very straight streak starts, extending 
to the centre of the anal margin of the hindwing. There are no formations of eyespots. In the neuration the 
extraordinarily long discal cells are remarkable; especially on the forewing the middle discocellular is thrice 
as distant from the base as it is from the margin. — Quite a number of forms of this genus seem to differ from 
one another in a way not to be recognized externally, merely in an atomical differences of the male genitals, 
owing to which they have been specially denominated. 
C. trifenestrata Hlfr. (52 a b). Reddish greyish-brown, but densely dusted with ash-grey and sooty trifenestrata. 
grey, especially behind the oblique streak of the forewing. Whilst the $ shows in the forewing three tiny, 
angularly arranged, punctiform hyaline spots, one or the other of which is sometimes even only indicated, the 
hyaline spots of the $ are much larger and are more arranged in one row. The larva distantly resembles that 
of Lasiocampa quercus ; it has a yellowish-brown fur, dark ring-indentations, each ring with 6 tufted small 
tubercles; neck and anal shield reddish, legs red-brown. On various trees such as Canarium commune, Mangifera, 
and other Anacardiaeeae such as Anacardium occidentale and orientale, as well as on species of Prunus. The 
pupa rests in a wide-meshy yellowish-brown net. The species extends in different forms from India and Ceylon 
through South Asia to the Philippine Is. and is local, but in places very common; the pupae are brought alive 
to Europe in great numbers. — The form burmana Swh. is not constantly different as imago from typical burmana. 
Javanese specimens, but the larva spins a different compact cocoon. — Of luzonica Jord., from the Philippine Is., luzonica. 
the (J differs from ochreous specimens of trifenestrata merely in the genitals. andamanica Jord. is a large form andamani- 
occurring in both sexes in a dark and a light variety. In the the costal margin of the forewing is more curved 
and the apex of the wing less projecting, the hyaline spot small, the blackish postdiscal line straighter than 
usual; in the $ the posterior half of the margin of the wing is rounder, the 3 hyaline spots are larger, in the 
cell there is always a fourth (smaller) hyaline spot, the postdiscal line is situate a little more outward; the two 
lines of the hindwing are anteriorly convergent, but not contiguous. Andamans. - bornea Wts.. from Sarawak, bomea. 
in both sexes shows less falcate forewings than all the other forms of trifenestrata ; the dark line is posteriorly 
curved towards the base and broader, the hyaline spots are reduced. - Specimens from Java are said to be 
of a more reddish tint in the female sex and invariably without supernumerary hyaline spots (= javana Wts.). — 
The larva is dark, with brown hair, the cocoon in the typical form with very wide meshes, so that the pupa is 
visible therein; otherwise as described above. 
C. andrei Jord. (53 c). The marking is rather exactly as in the preceding species, but the colouring andrei. 
characteristical, so that here a bright brick-red colour of both wings before the discal oblique line contrasts 
with the marginal area which is yellowish-grey in the <$ and violettish-grey in the $. Moreover the apex of 
the forewing is extended into a longer point than in trifenestrata , and the costal margin in the apical poriion 
in the $ somewhat truncate, thus producing a shape of the wings very similar to that of the Drepanid Canucha 
miranda (49 1.) — Some specimens are of a particularly bright purple colour and in their marginal area violet 
with a distinct pink lustre ( = vinosa Wts.). - ab. afenestra Wts. are specimens being unicoloured above and afenestra. 
beneath, lacking the hyaline spots or with but very faint traces of them. — elaozia Jord. is ranged here owing etaozia. 
to the examinations of the genitals. Olive slate-colour without any red tint. Forewing in the disc darker; 
before the round central hyaline spot a series of 3 small hyaline dots. Beneath the grey scales and lines are 
more prominent than in trifenestrata. But one specimen from Preanger (Java) is hitherto known. — Larva 
of andrei entirely different from that of trifenestrata ; it is above apple-green, beneath somewhat darker; below 
the stigmata a yellowish-green oblong torus; head greenish brown; across the dorsum series of tiny rosy-red 
tubercles set with small dark hairs which may have a burning effect on the skin. On the ventral feet there are 
small pink spots and on the penultimate ring a coniform fleshy cone wih a yellow tubercle. The whole upper 
surface is irrorated whitish, anal region brown. Pupa in a wide-meshy cocoon closed like a bow-net. Easily 
bred with various fruit-leaves (cherry, apple etc.). 
C. drepanoides Mr. (53 d). Shape almost exactly like that of the preceding species, but in the $ the drepanoides. 
margin of the hindwing exhibits a short, blunt tooth below the apex; besides the upper surface is more marked; 
particularly before and behind the centre of the forewing there are dark, whitish-edged costal spots. Colouring 
