210 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Genus MELANOCY MA. 
Melanocyma, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1858, p. 186. 
Imaco.—Male. Wings short, broad; exterior margin oblique. Forewing 
triangular; costa arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, posterior 
angle rounded, posterior margin lobate near the base; cell broad, upper 
end extending to nearly half the wing, lower end to three-fifths; first 
subcostal branch emitted at some distance before end of the cell, second at two- 
thirds beyond end of the cell, third, fourth, and fifth nearer the apex ; upper 
discocellular short, angled close to the subcostal, lower discocellular long, much 
recurved ; radials from angles near subcostal; median veinlets wide apart, equi- 
distant ; submedian recurved near the base. Hindwing obconical, anterior margin 
long, nearly straight, apex obtusely rounded, exterior margin oblique and rounded 
posteriorly ; furnished with a recumbent androconial tuft of hairs at base of the 
subcostal, and a row of fine longish hairs extending between the submedian and 
internal vein, which terminate more thickly above the anal angle; subcostal branches 
and radial emitted together near the base of costal; cell open; medians wide apart ; 
middle median emitted at about half the wing. Body slender; palpi slender, porrect, 
finely hairy above ; antenne slender, and with an elongated club. 
Type.—M. Faunula. 
MELANOCYMA FAUNULOIDES (Plate 167, fig. 1, la, ?). 
Melanocyma faunuloides, de Nicéville, Journal Bombay Nat. Hist. Society, 1895, p. , pl. N. 
fig 2, 9. 
Imaco.—* Female. Upperside, both wings very pale fuscous or French-grey, all 
the black markings of the underside showing through faintly by transparency. 
Forewing with the veins slightly infuscated. Hindwing with the outer two-thirds of 
the abdominal margin, and the anal region widely as far as the inter-nervular fold in 
the first median interspace ochreous-yellow, this colour being carried narrowly along 
the outer margin as far as the second median nervule. Underside, both wings slightly 
paler than above, especially the hindwing. Forewing with a large round black spot near 
the middle of the discoidal cell; a broad black line across the cell beyond its middle, 
joined to two similar lines running along the subcostal and median neryvures from 
the base of the wing, the latter broadening out towards the base of the submedian 
interspace ; the anterior half of the discocellular nervules black, fining away to nothing 
posteriorly ; two broad slightly irregular nearly parallel black lines commencing at 
the subcostal and ending at the submedian nervure, the inner line somewhat 
lunulated between the median nervules; a very fine obscure submarginal blackish 
line, with an extremely fine black line on the margin. Hindwing with the abdominal 
margin ochreous-yellow of a paler shade than on the upperside, this colour becoming 
