HERMINIIDyE. 24'J 



slender dorsal black tufts; palpi brow-n ; legs pale oclireous, tibia3 and tarsi with 

 dark brown bands. 



Expanse 1 to 1-^ inch. 



LABANDA ACHINE. 



Bocana Achme, Felder et RogenhofFer, Nov. Voy. iv. pi. 120, fig. 18 (1874), ? . 



Male and female. Forewing brownish-black, densely speckled with prominent 

 olive-green scales ; with a transverse outwardly-oblique curved subbasal green-bor- 

 dered black line, a similar zigzag antemedial line, a less defined green- speckled 

 postraedial line, and a submarginal line ; the two inner lines being green, bordered 

 on both sides ; a black reniform mark : hiudwing purplish-brown. Cilia dark 

 cinereous-brown. Thorax and head black and green speckled; palpi purplish-brown, 

 the upper and lower edge being ochreous ; abdomen long and slender in male, 

 purplish-brown above, with black dorsal basal tufts in both sexes, anal tuft in male 

 ochreous ; legs ochreous, with purple-brown bands above. 



Expanse, i Ircr, ? If inch. 



LABANDA CHLOEOMELLA. 



Diomea chloromdhi, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1804 (1858), 9. 



Plotlieia cJiIoromcUa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 111. 



Labanda herhcalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. svii. p. 281 (1859), ^J. 



Male. Forewing olive-green, crossed by an outwardly-oblique subbasal, ante- 

 medial and a postmedial sharply-defined blackish zigzag duplex line, followed by a 

 submarginal line ; the areas between the lines clouded with black scales ; the ante- 

 medial and postmedial line indistinctly bordered with minute white scales : hindwing 

 purplish-brown. Cilia greyish-ochreous, with a slender black inner line. 



Female. Brighter olive-green : forewing with the subbasal, antemedial, and 

 postmedial lines with white centres, the areas between the lines more densely clouded 

 with darker black scales ; and with a black orbicular and reniform spot. Thorax 

 and head olive-green, speckled with black scales ; abdomen purplish-brown ; dorsal 

 tufts black, anal tuft in male ochreous ; legs ochreous, with brown bands, which are 

 darkest on the forelegs. Underside : forewings pale purplish-brown : hindwings 

 pale ochreous, with a medial and a broad marginal dark purplish-brown band. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus OROSA. 

 Orosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1222 (1865). 



" Female. Wings rather short and broad : forewings slightly rounded at the 

 tips ; costa convex ; exterior margin convex, hardly oblique ; second inferior vein 

 nearer to the first than to the third, fourth z'emote from the third. Body rather stout ; 

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