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PROSPALTA. By W. Warren. 
connivens. 
niveiplaga. 
terranea. 
stellata. 
contigua. 
leucospila. 
brown black; upper stigmata of the ground colour, the reniform on its outer side marked with a large conspi¬ 
cuous snow white spot with a smaller dot above and two below; hindwing dark fuscous brown. The Punjab 
and Sikkim. 
C. connivens Fldr. (= quadrisigna Moore, placida Moore). Forewing pale grey with a slight lilac 
or olive tinge; the lines as in siderifera but indistinct; claviform stigma small, brownish edged with black, 
the inner line, where it touches, black; upper stigmata obscure, separated by a dark quadrate space; fringe grey; 
hindwing grey, browner towards termen and paler towards base, darker in the $; the fringe white. Smaller 
and paler than the last species. Occurs in several localities in the Punjab and at Calcutta, Bengal. 
C. niveiplaga Walk. ( = hodita Swinh.) (30 d). Forewing dark grey; the lines and stigmata blackish 
fuscous; subbasal and inner lines double, waved, the inner oblique; outer line somewhat obscure, double, den¬ 
tate lunulate, indented on both folds; subterminal line pale, interrupted, preceded and followed by black marks; 
a terminal row of black lunules; claviform dark brown edged with black, broader above than below; orbicular 
oblique, oval, grey slightly black edged; reniform large, grey, with some blackish before and below it, a large 
bluish white spot .in middle of outer edge with a white spot above and two at lower end; hindwing greyish 
fuscous, with dark lunule and veins and faint outer line; the ab. terranea Btlr. (30 e) is paler, more oclireous, 
grey, with the lunule and spots in the reniform pale luteous. From various localities in the Punjab. 
123. Genus: l*rospalta Walk. 
Differs from Condica Walk. in its less robust structure, the thorax and abdomen being narrower, and in 
the broader forewings; the dorsum is wihout lateral tufts, and the pectus and femora less hairy; as to 
markings, the forewing is dark with pale lines and stigmata, formed, in the more typical species, of conspicuous 
white dots, and is always without the large black claviform stigma of Condica. Type P. leucospila Walk. 
from India. 
P. stellata Moore (30 e). Forewing black brown, the two folds shewing rufous in places; five or six 
white dots at base in and below cell, followed by an oblique white subbasal striga from costa with two dots 
obliquely below it; an inner series of white dots on and below costa and on the veins and inner margin; outre 
line bent outwards from a white costal spot, then dentate lunulate, the teeth marked throughout by white 
points; orbicular stigma a white dot surrounded by 5 white dots-; reniform figure of 8-shaped, each half, like 
the orbicular formed by a white dot with 5 others round it; subterminal line double; the inner arm with the 
white dots smaller and more or less evanescent on veins 2, 3, 4, the outer complete with the white spots large, 
that on the submedian fold in both series blotched; fringe with white dots at base and tips; hindwing dark 
fuscous brown with an indistinct curved outer dark line edged with paler; thorax and patagia brown dotted 
with white; the first dorsal crest whitish, the others black. Sikkim, N. India. 
P. contigua Leech (30 e). Forewing cupreous brown; the veins towards termen black; two small 
white dots at base and a larger one on median vein beyond; a subbasal white dot on costa and median vein; 
inner line formed by a white spot on costa and 4 smaller ones on the veins and inner margin; orbicular 
stigma a round white spot, the claviform a small dot ringed with black; reniform with each half consisting of 
a large white spot surrounded by 4 others; outer line formed of white dots at the teeth of the line, the spots 
on costa and inner margin much larger; subterminal line of small white dots, evanescent below middle, that on 
vein 5 and on costa larger; minute terminal dots; fringe brown rayed with white; hindwing bronzy grey; 
fringe as in forewing; metathoracic crest white. Described from West China, but found also in the Khasia Hills, 
Assam. A small species. 
P. leucospila Walk. (30 e). Forewing black brown with prominent white spots; an elongate white spot 
at base and two subbasal above and below subcostal vein; two contiguous oval spots at base of submedian 
fold and a round one on median vein; inner line formed of two somewhat angled marks one on each side of 
subcostal, and three white dots on the veins and one at inner margin; orbicular stigma a round white spot; 
claviform a white dot; reniform a large round, slightly elongate, spot with a brown crescent on it, surrounded 
by 6 white dots, of which the inner two are connected by a white curve; outer line lunulate dentate, blackish, 
starting from a white costal spot above reniform, outbent below costa, the teeth marked by distinct white 
dots on veins and two on inner margin; subterminal line double, the white dots of the inner preceded by wedge- 
shaped black marks, those on the two folds larger; the outer white spots large, that on cell fold larger, that on 
submedian fold double; fringe brown with large white flecks at base and tips; hindwing bronzy fuscous; an 
