ID^ID^. 447 



BORBACHA PARDARIA (Plate 199, Fig. 9, S)- 

 Anisodes pardaria, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 420 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 647. 

 Yellow. Wings very sparsely speckled with short red strigse ; crossed by an 

 antemedial and an inwardly-oblique discal reddish-cinereous zigzag band ; the discal 

 band on forewing being composed of more or less broken lunular parts ; some similar 

 coloured subapical angular streaks on forewing, and short strigas on the costal 

 border. A small black spot at end of each cell. Body with reddish bands. 

 Expanse lyu inch. 



Family ID.aEID^. 



Acidalidiv, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 422 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 651. 



Wings small, or of medium size, smooth, generally entire ; alike in colour and 

 markings : forewing triangular ; hindwing rounded, or with an angle on the exterior 

 margin. Body generally slender ; proboscis distinct ; palpi generally small ; antennjB 

 rather short, pubescent, or finely pectinated in the male, never plumose ; abdomen 

 not crested ; legs smooth ; hind tibiee of male often incrassated, and with aborted 

 tarsi ; one or two pairs of spurs in the female. 



Larva slender, cylindrical, or keeled. 



Lives hidden under low plants. 



Pupa in a cocoon amongst leaves or in the earth. 



Genus POMASIA. 



Pomasia, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 427 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 656 (1861). 



Forewing elongate, broad externally, apex and exterior margin convex; cell 

 more than half the length; first subcostal nearly one-third before end of cell, 

 quadrifid, fifth curved upward from end and slightly touching second near 

 its base; discocellular outwardly-oblique, radial from the middle; the middle 

 median from angle close to end, lower nearly one-third : hindwing very short, 

 exterior margin convex, waved; cell half the length; costal joined to subcostal 

 from near base to near end of cell ; two subcostals at one-fifth beyond end of cell ; 

 discocellular outwardly concave, radial from middle ; the middle median from angle 

 close to end, lower at one-third. Body slender, with well-developed slender anal 

 tuft in male ; palpi porrect, long, squamous, second joint extending more than half 

 beyond the head, third joint about half its length, oval ; legs long, smooth ; middle 

 tibite with a pair and hind tibiae with two pairs of slender unequal spurs ; antenna? 

 setaceous. 



(P. psylarla.) 



