externa. 
delecta. 
cervxna. 
praeiexta. 
venal a. 
divisa. 
inters lincta. 
jlavipleta. 
324 ATHETLS. By W. Warren. 
the veins towards termen and the termen itself tinged with brown. Found in S. India: the Nilgiri Hills and 
Coimbatore, Madras. 
107. Genus: Atlietis Hbn. 
Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment well scaled and reaching vertex, 
the third short; antennae of $ typically ciliated; vestiture hairy; the prothorax only with slight crest. — 
Larva usually on low growing herbage and grasses. A large genus of small-sized species, often very much alike 
and difficult to separate. Type A. furvula Hbn. 
Sect. III. Antennae of $ with tuberculate f -a s c i c 1 e s of cilia. 
A. externa Walk. (28 i). Forewing dull greyish fuscous with a brownish tinge; the inner line darker, ang¬ 
led outwards below costa, then inbent; orbicular stigma a small dark spot; reniform a fuscous bar constricted 
at middle; median shade bent hi middle; outer line lunulate dentate, blackish, with black points on veins; sub- 
terminal oblique, nearly straight, yellowish defined on inner side by redbrown; minute black terminal dots; 
hindwing greyish fuscous. Sikkim only. 
Sect. IV. Antennae of $ almost simple, pubescent. 
A. delecta Moore (28 i). Forewing greyish white with slight dark dusting; the terminal area more fuscous; 
inner and outer lines finely black, the former obliquely waved, the latter strongly dentate, the teeth forming 
a row of points on the veins; subterminal line conspicuously white; a terminal row of black and white dots; 
orbicular and reniform stigmata black, broken up by white scales to form spots; the orbicular into 3, the reni¬ 
form into 7, 3 on inner side and 4 on outer; hindwing white, the veins and termen fuscous; a slight cell- 
dot. Found in several localities in the Punjab and in Sikkim; occurs also in Central China. 
A. cervina Moore (28 i). Forewing cupreous brown; subbasal line straight; inner line brown, angled 
outwards below costa, inwards in cell, then excurved; orbicular small, elliptical, defined by rufous; reniform 
a small lunule obscured by a diffuse rufous cloud; median shade angled in middle; outer line brown, denticu¬ 
late, excurved above, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line whitish, almost straight, defined internally 
by rufous; terminal line brown, fine; fringe with white line at base; hindwing grey suffused with cupreous 
brown. Sikkim. 
A. praetexta Swinh. (28 i). Forewing whitish ochreous tinged with pale brown; the veins dotted with 
dark and light scales; inner and outer lines black, double; median shade diffuse brown; subterminal waved, 
yellowish ochreous, preceded by a waved brown shade; orbicular a black dot ringed with white; reniform 
8-shaped, dark brown outlined with white; terminal area dark brown; hindwing brownish grey with dark cell 
spot. Kliasia Hills, Assam. In a $ from Mongpo, Sikkim, subsp. venata subsp. nov. (28 i) the reniform is 
more obliquely placed, the lower lobe being swollen both outwardly and inwardly, but the pale ground co¬ 
lour remains the same. 
A. divisa Moore (28 k). Forewing ruddy brown with a grey tinge and dusted with darker; the lines 
luteous white; the inner and outer conversely dark edged; submarginal almost straight, preceded by a thick 
brown shade; terminal black spots small; orbicular and reniform stigmata large, darker than the ground colour, 
with luteous annuli; the median shade distinct; hindwing pale brownish grey. Occurs in the Punjab, N. India 
and over the borders hi Kashmir. 
A. imterstincta Moore (281c). Forewing dull red brown with a slight purplish grey tinge; the lines ob¬ 
scure, black, and partly double; the inner toothed inwards and the outer outwards on the veins; median shade 
strongly bent outwards at reniform and inwards on lower fold; subterminal line yellowish, with a diffuse dark 
shade before it; orbicular stigma a black dot; reniform dark brown, with a white dot externally at upper end 
and two at lower end, with a dull orange line between; hindwing slightly paler brown; in a form from 
Kurseong, — ab. flavipleta ab. nov. (28 k), — the orange line is swollen into a spot filling up the stigma in 
