XYLOSTOLA; ARCILASISA; CLETHRORASA; APSARASA. By W. Warren. 
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marks between veins 2 and 7; median vein and veins towards termen pale grey; the terminal dark 
shade obliquely limited above by a pale streak from apex; a row of terminal black lunules; fringe with 
dark brown traversing line; hindwing pale grey. Palaboelian, Java; described from 2 only. 
78. Genus: Xylostola limps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons glossy with bluntly conical prominence concealed by a tuft of hair; 
palpi upturned, the second segment broadly fringed with scales in front, the third long, erect, smooth 
and slender; antennae of lamellate, with short fine bristles; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, 
without crests, except the prothorax, which bears a small erect one; tibiae fringed with hair; forewing 
rather broad and short, the apex blunt, the termen evenly curved; neuration normal. Type X. in- 
distincta Moore. 
X. indistincta Moore (21 b). Forewing pale greyish ochreous brown tinged with redbrown, especially indistincla. 
just beyond middle, and with slight blackish irroration; a black dot at base; inner line waved, dark 
preceded by paler; outer followed by paler scales, oblique to vein 6, vertical to 4, then incurved; a 
median line parallel to outer; subterminal line an oblique row of pale spots, slightly defined on each side by 
blackish above middle, met by an oblique black streak from apex and slightly excurvecl at middle; 
terminal line fine, black, waved, with black spots in the intervals; orbicular stigma obsolete; reni- 
form a greyish lunule surrounded by black points; hindwing redbrown; the fringe paler, with a brownish 
line near base. Found in Sikkim in the North, and in Madras and Ceylon in South India. 
79. Genus: Arcilasisa Walk. 
Tongue fully developed; frons prominently rounded; palpi oblicpiely porrect, slender, the second seg¬ 
ment fringed in front with long hair; antennae of $ serrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia; thorax and ab¬ 
domen hairy, without crests; tibiae fringed with long hair; forewing narrow and elongate, the apex 
prominent, the termen oblicpiely curved; neuration normal. Type A. sobria Walk. 
A. sobria Walk. (20 k). Forewing greyish ochreous with fuscous irroration; a subterminal series of sobria. 
wedge-shaped black marks between veins 7 and 2; a terminal row of black points; hindwing whitish 
tinged with fuscous especially on terminal area. A large species reaching 80 mm. Sikkim, Nepal, and the 
Punjab, all in N. India; its occurrence in S. India is doubtful. 
80. Genus: Clefhrorasa limps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment smoothly scaled and ap- 
pressed to frons, the third short; antennae of simple, filiform; thorax and abdomen without crests; 
the tibiae smooth; forewing narrow, with blunt apex and evenly curved termen; neuration normal. 
Type C. pilcheri Hmps. 
C. pilcheri Hmps. (21 b). Forewing white with deep metallic green spots and patches; basal and subbasal pilcheri. 
patches on costa and a small round subbasal spot below vein 1; inner line represented by a patch 
on costa and a blotch from submedian fold to inner margin; orbicular stigma a small round spot; reniform 
a large subconical patch connected with an oblique costal spot, followed by an outer costal spot; erect 
blotches from submedian fold to inner margin, representing ends of median and outer lines; subterminal line 
represented by a triangular spot on costa, an erect bar on inner margin, and a small spot below 
vein 3; fringe white, spotted with black on both folds; hindwing fuscous black, the terminal area whitish 
with the veins across it dark. Sikkim, N. India. 
81. Genus: Apsarasa Moore. 
Tongue well developed; frons with rounded prominence with a beaklike process at extremity; 
palpi upturned, the second segment broadly scaled in front, the third smooth; antennae of <$ lamellate, 
