Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson.

Date:
1892-1896
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    319. Ichthyura restitura, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 438; Moore, Lep. Cetjl. ii, pi. 122, lig.s. 1, 1 a, 6 (larva and pii])a); C. 8f S. no. 1107. Ichthyura indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 813; C. ^ S. no. 1196. cJ. DiflTers from cupreata in being dark red-brown ; the vertex of head and thorax dark velvety brown. Abdomen and hind wing dark brown. Lai'va purplish brown or grey, wdth pinkish dorsal tubercles on 4th and 11th somites; a sublateral series of small tubercles ; slight lateral dai'k lines; the thoracic somites each with a white black- centred spot; two lateral series of whitish dots and some dorsal ones. Hah. Bengal; S.India; Ceylon, ^^.rp. 26-34 millim. 320. Ichthyura nndulata, Hmpsn. III. Set. viii, p. 60, pi. 141, fig. 3. 2 . Pale olive-brown. Fore wing with some dark suffusion above centre of inner margin and below apex; the two antemedial lines dentate, the outer line oblique and angled near inner margin; the postmedial waved and curved ; the dark waved submargiual line well defined. Abdomen and hind wing rather paler, the latter with an indistioct curved postmedial line with a pale spot on it at inner margin. The race from the N.W. Himalayas differs from the typical Nilgiri form in the male having the thorax and fore wing ferru- ginous, the latter with the two inner and outer lunulate lines grey with dark edges and a black speck at the end of the cell; hind wing with the postmedial line and white spot more distinct. _ The female is darker; fore wing with the space between the inner lines and also the outer area suffused with dark grey. Eab. N.W. Himalayas; Nilgiris, N. slopes, 3500 ft. Exi^. 30 millim. *32]. Ichthyura ferruginea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 813; C. 8,- S. no. 1194. 9 Pale red-bro\\TD. Head and vertex of thorax dark brown. Fore'wing with slightly curved subbasal and straight ante-and postmedial lines, with a short oblique line between them above mner margin; two dark marks at end of cell; two indistmct series ot submarginal spots. Mab. N.E. Bengal. Exp. 40 milhm. Genus CYPHANTA. Cyphanta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 855 (1865). Type, C. xanilioclora, Wlk. S uptuSreaching above vertex of head, the first two joints fringed with hair, the third naked. Antenn^E simple. Legs hairy ;