134 Lloyd's natural history. 



GENUS SUANA. 



Suana, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 1502 (1855); 

 Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 151 (1833) ; Hampson, 

 Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i. p. 404 (1892). 



Palpi broad, prominent : antennre strongly pectinated at the 

 base in the male, the pectinations shortening to the tip ; body 

 moderately stout ; abdomen very long, slender and tapering in 

 the male, much stouter in the female, and not extending much 

 beyond the hind wings. 



SUANA CONCOLOR. 



Leheda concolor^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. vi. 

 p. 1463, no. J 2 (1855). 



Leheda bimaciilata, Walker, op. cit. no. 13 (1855). 



Siiana ampla, Walker, op. cit. p. 1502, no. i (1855). 



Siiajia biniacidata, Moore, Cat. Lepid. Ins. E. I. House, ii. 

 p. 428, no. 972, pi. xxiii., figs, i, la, b (transf.) ; pi. xiii.a, 

 figs, 2, 2 a (1859) ; id. Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 152, pi. 140, 

 figs. I, I a, b (1883) ; Butler, 111. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus. 

 vi. p. 2, pi. 1 01, figs. 3, 4 (18S6). 



Suana concolor, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, i. p. 406, 

 fig. 281 (1892). 



This handsome moth is a native of the East Indies, and 

 exhibits the usual disproportion in size between the sexes which 

 w^e find in the Pinaiddce.^ the male measuring about two inches 

 and a half, and the female more than five inches across the 

 wings. 



The male is reddish-brown, the fore-wings are crossed by 

 several blackish waved lines, and there is generally a white 

 spot at the end of the cell. The sub-marginal line is macular; 



