. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHAB0ATA. 263 Sect. III. Antennte of male ciliated. A. Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of long hairs from base. a. Fore wing yellow irrorated and striated with rufous distincta. b. Fore wing reddish or grey tinged with red, irrorated and striated with brown ohsctira. c. Fore wing grey tinged with browu; hind wing on under- side with the terminal area dark punctosa. 1501, Chabuata distincta. Aletia distincta, Mooro, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333, pi. 37, f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 277. Aletia exanthemata, Moore, P. Z. S

. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHAB0ATA. 263 Sect. III. Antennte of male ciliated. A. Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of long hairs from base. a. Fore wing yellow irrorated and striated with rufous distincta. b. Fore wing reddish or grey tinged with red, irrorated and striated with brown ohsctira. c. Fore wing grey tinged with browu; hind wing on under- side with the terminal area dark punctosa. 1501, Chabuata distincta. Aletia distincta, Mooro, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333, pi. 37, f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 277. Aletia exanthemata, Moore, P. Z. S Stock Photo
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. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHAB0ATA. 263 Sect. III. Antennte of male ciliated. A. Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of long hairs from base. a. Fore wing yellow irrorated and striated with rufous distincta. b. Fore wing reddish or grey tinged with red, irrorated and striated with brown ohsctira. c. Fore wing grey tinged with browu; hind wing on under- side with the terminal area dark punctosa. 1501, Chabuata distincta. Aletia distincta, Mooro, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 333, pi. 37, f. 4 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 277. Aletia exanthemata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 410; Butl. III. Het. B. M. vii. p. 50, pi. 126. f. 6. Head and thorax yellow and rufous mixed ; a more or less prominent dark line near extremitj' of tegulse and some black scales near upper edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral tufts of male black. Fore wing yellow, thickly irrorated and striated with rufous ; the costal edge fuscous ; antemedial line curved and slightly sinuous; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform small, yellow with some rufous scales on them and ill-defined, the former. Fig. 54.— Chabuata di&tincta, S- - round, the latter with slight white streak on extremity of median nervure ; a rather indistinct and somewhat lunulate postmedial line, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, a series of points on the veins beyond it, angled at vein 4; an indistinct dark subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7, inwards in discal fold, and oxcurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with fuscous line through them. Hind wing ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous except towards costa and inner margin ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, postmedial waved line or series of short streaks on the veins and terminal series of points ; in male the underside of both wings with a golden gloss except costal area o