. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. THYRESTRA.—ERANA. 7 brovrn ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen rufous, the crests and anal tuft green, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black. Fore wing olive-green, the area just before the anteraedial line and the medial area suffused with brown ; the subbasal line represented by double black striic from costa and cell; antomedial line double, filled in with green, oblique from costa to vein 1, then incurved; claviform very indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- form green, defined by white at sides,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. THYRESTRA.—ERANA. 7 brovrn ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen rufous, the crests and anal tuft green, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black. Fore wing olive-green, the area just before the anteraedial line and the medial area suffused with brown ; the subbasal line represented by double black striic from costa and cell; antomedial line double, filled in with green, oblique from costa to vein 1, then incurved; claviform very indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reni- form green, defined by white at sides, oblique oblong and almost forming a V-shaped mark; postraedial line double, filled in with green, strongly bent outwards below costa, straight to vein 4, then. Fig. 2.— Thijresira Itijalophom, (^. \, oblique and bent outwards to inner margin, some violaceous beyond it except towards costa and inner margin, followed by some brown and slight black streaks on the veins and some pale points on costa; subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, and bent outwards to tornus, the area beyond it suffused with brown ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown inter- sected with whitish. Hind wing brown, with a largo hyaline patch in, below, and beyond lower part of cell; cilia pale, with a brown line through them; the underside whitish irrorated with brown ; a black spot at upper angle of cell, a sinuous postmedial line obsolete at middle, and some terminal lunules. Hub. Assam, Khasis, 1 S type. Exp. 32 raillim. Genus ERANA. Type. Erana, Wlk. xi. 605 (1857) graminosa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with hair; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenntc of male almost simple; head and thorax clothed with rough scales, pro- and nietathorax with spreading crests ; tibiie fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on proximal segments and lateral fringes of hair, the claspers of male large. Fore wing narro
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