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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    SATDBNIID^. Genus CRICULA. Cricula, Wlk. Cat. v, p. ]186 (JR.OS). Euphranor, Iler.-Schaff. Samml. am. Eur. Schmet. p. 6] (1858). Type, C. trifenestrata, Helf. Mange. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Java. lore wing with the costa evenly arched; apex rather acute- outer margm highly excised ; veins 5 and 6 given off from the sub- costal much nearer the base, ilind wing rounded: veins 5 and 6 given oft from the subcostal towards the base. 30. Cricula trifenestrata, mifer, J. A. S. B. vi, p. 45; Her.-Schaf. Samml. aus^ Fmr. Schmet. pi. 17, fig. 80 ; C. ^ S. no. 1354 ; Moore, Lep K I. Co. pi. xviu, fig. 7 a, b (larva and cocoon). Lricula burmana, Sioin/i. Trans. Ent. Sac. 1890, p. 198. 6 . Brown, ochreous, yellowish, or reddish. Fore wing with a waved antemedaal dark line; a small hyaline spot beyond the end ot the cell, with one or two others above it, the upper one generally Fig. 14.— Cricula trifenestrata, \. represented by a dark spot; an oblique line from the apex to the inner margin beyond the middle, the area beyond it suffused with grey. Hind \ving with the oblique line continued to the inner margin before the middle ; a hyaline spot beyond the cell; a snbmarginal waved line. Underside wdth the basal area suffused with purple. 2 . Generally redder ; three large irregularly shaped hyaline spots beyond the cell of the fore wing, often with one or two small ones inside them. Larva black-brown ; 2nd to 11th somites each with six setiferous tubercles; 1st somite and anal claspers crimson; a pale reddish sublateral stripe; legs and prolegs brown. Cocoon composed of bright golden-yellow silk firmly united into a network; a race from the Karen Hills spins a solid cocoon. Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans; Java. Exp., d 62-82, $ 72-92 milliin.