49 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOX. 



TARACHE INDA (Plate 150, Fig. 5). 

 Ariintia Inda, FelJer et Rogcuh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 108, fig. 23 (1874). 



Forewiiig deep yellow, with a broad outer marginal golden-yellow band ; the 

 inner margin of the band being oblique and waved, and is bordered by a recurved 

 purple-brown narrow band, which is indistinctly bent inward at the costal end : 

 hindwing pale whitish-ochreous ; the outer border brownish. Body deep yellow ; 

 palpi and legs above ochreous-brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



TARACHE DESTITtTTA (Plate 150, Fig. 6). 

 Acontia destituta. Walker, MS. Brit. Mus. Cabinet. 

 Pale brownish-ochreous : forewing with four or five transverse basal slender 

 brown sinuous lines, a recurved medial brownish sinuous band, followed by two 

 parallel discal lines, the upper portion of the baud darker brown, and the two discal 

 lines ending on the costa in a broad triangular dark brown patch ; at end of the cell is 

 a distinct narrow reniform mark ; exterior margin with a row of blackish dots : hind- 

 wing and abdomen dull pale ochreous-brown. Palpi and legs with dark brown bands. 

 Expanse /u inch. 



Genus BAGADA. 

 Bwjada, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1753 (1858). 

 " Female. Wings moderately broad : forewings straight along the costa, 

 rectangular at the tips ; exterior border hardly denticulated, very oblique hindward. 

 Body rather stout ; palpi pilose, obliquely ascending ; third joint linear, rounded at 

 the tip, about half length of the second ; antenna? simple ; abdomen slightly crested 

 at the base; legs stout, slightly pilose; hind tibiaj with very long spurs." 



BAGADA PYROCHROMA. 



Bagada pyrochroma. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1753 (1858). 



" Female. Reddish : forewings mostly testaceous in front, with a whitish 

 testaceous costal subapical patch ; a black subquadrate discal spot, near which the 

 exterior line is indistinctly visible ; some few elongated whitish points in the disc ; 

 marginal points black ; interior border cinereous : hindwings cinereous, somewhat 

 brownish towards the exterior border; cilia pale. Head and fore part of thorax 

 brown ; abdomen cinereous. 



" Expanse 13 lines." 



Genus HICCODA. 



Ilkcoda, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 134 (1882). 

 Wings small : forewing lengthened, narrow ; costa slightly arched at base, 



