70 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



There is but one genus in this small family at present. The 

 typical species are Asiatic; the African species have longer 

 and narrower wings. 



GENUS BRAIIM/EA. 



Brahmcpa^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., p. 13 15 

 (1855) ; Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i., p. 30 (1892). 



This genus includes large moths, often measuring five or 

 six inches in expanse. They are not brightly coloured, but 

 are of various shades of grey, brown, or black, and are 

 marked with undulating light and dark lines towards the base 

 of the fore-wings, and on the marginal half of all the wings. 

 In the middle of the inner margin of the fore-wings is often 

 a large round spot, giving the appearance of being in relief, 

 like the " eyes " on the wings of the Argus pheasant. 



BRAHM^A LEDERERI. 



{Plate CXII.) 



Brahmo'a kdereri^ Rogenhofer, Verb. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xxiii., p. 574 (1873)5 XXV., p. 801 (1875). 



This species is a large and handsome moth, which measures 

 about four inches and a half across the rounded wings. 



The fore-wings are black at the base, crossed by a zig-zag 

 grey line, beyond which the black area is rather broad above 

 and narrow below, and is followed by a series of alternate grey 

 and black festooned lines, the latter most distinct outside and 

 below. Beyond this is a sharply-defined and slightly oblique 

 central band composed of large connected oval black spots, 

 the seventh and tenth from the costa the largest, and each, 

 except towards the costa, filled up with dull tawny, or grey. 



