﻿156 LEPIDOPTERA INDIOA. 



rather broad and short. Forewing, subtriangular ; costa arched from the base, 

 apex rounded, exterior margin slightly oblique and scalloped ; cell broad and 

 ehort, closed ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of cell, 

 second at one-ninth before the end ; upper discocellular short, outwardly 

 oblique; middle discocellular bent outward at one-third from its upper end, lower 

 discocellular extremely slender ; two upper median veinlets from lower end of cell. 

 Hindwivg broadly conically-ovate ; exterior margin convex, scalloped, anal angle 

 rounded; precostal vein stout, incurved, long; costal vein extending to apex; 

 radial and base of lower subcostal at equal distance from the costal vein ; cell open. 

 Body moderately robust ; palpi rather short, directed upward and outward to about 

 middle of eyes, flattened at the sides and beneath, compactly clothed with short 

 hairy scales, those at the edges beneath lax and longest, apex conically-pointed ; 

 antenna! club lengthened, slender ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. Tyjje. P. Sinope. — 

 Pandita Sinope, Moore, Catal. hep. Mus. B. I. C. i. p. 181, pi. 6a., fig. 3 (1857). 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 14G, pi. 12, fig. 13 ? . P. Sinoria, Felder, Reise Nov. 

 Lep. p. 425. Hahifat. Malay Peninsula ; Penang; Singapore; Sumatra; Billiton ; 

 Borneo; Banca; Java. — Pandita imitans, Butler, Entom. M. Mag. 1883, p. 54. Kheil, 

 Rhop. Nias, p. 23 (1884). Habitat. Nias Island. 



Genus LEBADEA. 



Leladea, Felder, Neues Lep. p. 28 (1861). Distant, Khop. Malajana, p. 14-1 (1883). de 2\^iceviJle, 

 Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 151 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing ti-iangular ; costa almost straight, apex broadly 

 produced and abruptly rounded, exterior margin very concave in the middle and 

 slightly uneven, posterioi" angle obtusely pointed, posterior margin short and 

 recurved; cell long, narrow, closed, upper end extending to more -than half tbe 

 wing; first subcostal branch emitted at fully one-third before end of the cell, second 

 at fully one-sixth before the end ; discocellulars inwardly oblique, upper very short, 

 middle bent inward, lower inwardly concave posteriorly ; middle median veinlet 

 emitted at a short distance before lower end of the cell ; submedian vein recurved. 

 Hindwing short, conically-triangular ; apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, convex 

 posteriorly, anal angle rounded ; cell short, broad, closed ; precostal vein incurved, 

 emitted at some distance above the origin of the subcostal ; two upper median 

 veinlets emitted together at some distance beyond lower end of the cell. Body 

 somewhat slender ; palpi slender, very compactly squamous beneath, hairy above, 

 tip conicfd ; antennae slender, long, with an elongated slender club ; eyes naked. 



Type. — L. Ismene. 



