(Figs. 6, 7, 29)

Donda thoracica Moore, 1882. In Hewitson & Moore, Description of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the Late Mr W.S. Atkinson: 161, Pl. 5: 7. Holotype: female, North India, Prov. West Bengalia, Darjiling (NKMB, Berlin).

References: Hampson 1894: 473 (Polydesma); Poole 1989:326 (Donda); Krusek & Behounek 1996: Pl. 43:3 (Belciana).

Material examined. Holotype: female labelled: “Darjeeling Coll. Atkinson / Oringin / Donda Thoracica Type Moore female/ Donda thoracica det. M. Gaede ”/ Genit. Prep. 12048 GB (MNHU). 1 female, India, Arunachal Pradesh, Distr. Along Near Rapum, 12 – 14.vii.2007 2100 m, 28˚31ʹ389ʹ N 094˚ 152ʹ21ʹ E leg. Bretschneider ex coll. Stumpf /Becher/BC ZSM Lep 48892/ Genit. prep. 8061GB coll. GB; 1 female India Arunachal Pradesh, Distr. Along Near Rapum, 19 – 21.vii.2006, 2100 m, 28˚53ʹ176ʹ N 094˚ 24ʹ941ʹ E leg. Bretschneider coll. Stumpf / Becher /BC ZSM Lep 48891 / Genit. prep. 7416GB (AB).

Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 6, 7). Wingspan: female 50 – 53 mm. The species can be recognized by grassy-green ground colour of forewing with wide brown medial shadow and not interrupted brown subterminal field. Head and thorax deep grassy-green, abdomen brownish-grey with green crest. Wing pattern formed by brown patches in subbasal field, blackish-brown medial shadow (narrower in costal area, extending to inner margin of wing) and brown subterminal and terminal fields, separated by thin, diffused subterminal line; orbicular very small, formed by white bordering line; reniform as white streak, separated from orbicular by black, veins R and Cu behind reniform suffused with white. Hindwing grey-brownish, basally pale, with medial fascia thin, diffused, yellowishgrey which becomes distinct, white and strongly angled near tornal angle and with clear white tornal mark and indistinct row of yellowish-grey spots along outer margin. Female genitalia (Fig. 30). Papillae anales quadrangular; apophyses anteriores and posteriores thin, rather short, almost equal in length; antrum weakly sclerotised, with Yshaped antemedial plate and narrow elongate-triangular postmedial plate; ductus bursae membranous, joins with knee-like sclerotised ribbed cervix bursae; corpus bursae spherical, sclerotised and ribbed in caudal part. Male unknown.

Distribution (Map 34:1). North India.

Notes. Since its original description with illustration (Figs. 1, 2) the species was not mentioned in Hampson’s catalogue (1903–1913), nor illustrated in Seitz (1912 –1938). The holotype of thoracica was illustrated by Krusek & Behounek (1996).The species has been placed in Donda by Poole (1989) and by Holloway (2009) and in Belciana by Krusek & Behounek (1996).