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ttird before tbe end ; submedian and internal vein nearly straigbt. liody stout, 

 abdomen carinated above ; thorax broad ; liead flattened above, pointed in front ; 

 palpi narrow, ascending, clotbed with short adpressed scales, second joint long, third 

 joint about one-fourth length of the second and rising to the vertex ; antennce simpl(> ; 

 legs long, stout, tibiaa thick, clothed with stout hairy scales; middle and hind til)ia) 

 with long spurs. 



RAMADASA PAVO (Pi-ate 149, Fig. 1). 

 Chasmina Pavo, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 147 (1856). 

 Ramadam Pavo, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, \\ 603, pi. 59, (ig. 8. 



Forewing with the basal half covered with black-speckled olive-green scales, the 

 base of the costal border being golden-yellow and black spotted ; outer half of the 

 wing pale pinkish-ochreous or flesh colour ; the basal half bordered obliquely across 

 middle of the wing by a slender deep black line, exterior to which is a diffused 

 purplish-ferruginous band ; reniform mark large, defined by an inner white-streaked 

 black border and outer black spots, with a central ferruginous-bordered black lunular 

 spot ; from upper edge of the reniform mark a black streak extends inward to tlie 

 costa, and before the apex is a prominent black angular streak, which is speckled 

 -with metalhc-green scales ; a blue-speckled black spot at base of the middle band, 

 and a marginal row of black dots : hiudwing and abdomen golden-yellow. Thorax 

 and top of head olive-green, the scales black speckled ; front of head, palpi, and legs 

 golden-yellow; front of head with black bands, palpi tipt with black; forelegs witli 

 black bands, middle and hind legs with black spots ; all the tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse, S 1|, ? IJ inch. 



Genus CARANDANA. 



Forewing short, broad, costa convexly distorted near the apex and from which 

 projects an overlapping tuft of long hairy scales, exterior margin convex, not oblique, 

 posterior margin convex towards the base ; costal vein curved upward to the distorted 

 margin at its end ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second 

 at one-sixth, bifid, fourth from end of the cell, bifid, and slightly joined to third for 

 a short distance near its base ; discocellular concave, radials from upper end and 

 near lower end; middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at one-third 

 before the end ; submedian slightly curved : hindwiug short, broad, exterior margin 

 convex ; two subcostals from end of the cell, discocellular concave, radial from near 

 lower end; two upper jnedians from end of the cell, lower at one-third; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi ascending, long, narrow, 

 second joint extending to level of the eyes, third joint cylindrical; antenna? simple ; 

 legs stoutj pilose, middle and hind tibiee spurred. 



