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with postmedial line just before it between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fere- 

 wing with the orbicular and reniform black ; both wings with blackish band 

 beyond the postmedial line except on inner area of forewing and costal area 

 of hindwing. 



Habitat. — W. Africa; Japan ; Corea ; China ; Formosa ; Punjab Kulu, 

 Sultanpur, Allahabad ; Bhutan ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; Burma, Hsipaw ; Java y. 

 Australia : Samoa ; Tahiti ; Exp. 24-36 mill. 



Larra, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix, p. 92, PI. 176, f. 22. 



Genus Mklicleptria. 



Type. 



Melicleptria. — Hi'ibn. Verz., p. 262 (1827). scutosa. 



Canthylidia. — Butl Trans. Ent. Soc., 1886. p. 406 pallida. 



Melicleptria scutosa, £ \ 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons, and 

 slightly fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and 

 thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibiae short and broad 

 with long curved claw and two spines on inner side and shorter claw or spine- 

 on outer ; mid and hind tibite spined, Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 4 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell' 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle. 



S j ct. II, (Melicleptria). Forewing of male without glandular swelling on 

 costa. 



1604. Melicleptria. scutosa. 



Genus Timora. 



Type. 



Timora, Wlk., ix, 132 (1856) senegahnsis. 



Sophaga, Moore, P. Z. ft., 1881, p. 362 sinuata, 



Dorika, Moore. P. Z. ft,. 1881, p. 363 sanguinolenta. 



Masalia, Moore, P. Z. ft., 1881, p. 364 rudiata. 



Pradatta, Moore, P. Z. ft., 1881, p. 364 beatrix. 



Curubasa, Moore, P. Z. ft., 1881, p. 866 lanceolula. 



Rhodosea, Gri'ote Can. Ent. xv., p. 4 (1883) Julia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed 

 with hair belnw ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate be!ow 



