PYDX.vonrs. 2G5 



Genus PYDNAODES. 



I ype. 

 Pydnaodes, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (8) viii. p. 407 (1911) dislincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching tomiddle 

 <if frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex; fore tibiaa 

 fringed with hair, the hind tibiae with two pair- of spurs ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing with the apes somewhat produced 

 and acute, the termen evenly curve 1 ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 just above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8. 9, 10 stalked; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing- with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 6. 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 reduced to a spur from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Tricypha in the hind wing having veins 6, 7 from angle 

 of cell and 8 reduced to a spur from middle of cell. 



1 171 a. Pydnaodes distincta. 



Tess ' : ! disti i, Roths. A.M. X. H. (8) iv. p. 207 (1909) ; id. Nov. 



Zool. xvii. pi. 12. f. 6. 



6 ■ Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous, the patagia 

 creamy white; shaft of antennae whitish towards base, the branches 

 In-own; palpi brown at sides; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous 

 and slightly irrorated with brown ; a rufous medial patch above 

 vein 1. rounded above, where it is defined by black; a creamy 

 white antemedial band slightly defined by dark scales from costa 

 to the rufous patch, then running along vein 1 to base; postmedial 



Fig. 77. -Pydnaodes distiticta, q. ]. 



line formed by a yellowish white spot on costa with some blackish 

 scales before it. a slight lunule above vein b* and oblique stri^a below 

 it, oblique and slightly defined by black on inner side from vein 5 to 

 the upper edge of the rufous patch, then bent outwards and ter- 

 minating above vein 1 ; the inner margin creamy white except 

 towards base, with a dark streak above it on vein 1 ; subterminal 

 line represented by two creamy white lunules below costa 

 and an oblicpie streak to the postmedial line at vein (>. strongly 

 defined on outer side by red-brown, and by an oblique lunulate 

 band defined on outer side by blackish spots from vein 5 bent out- 

 wards to termen above vein 1 ; a terminal lunulate band defined by 

 blackish scales. Hind wing yellow suffused with rufous; a brown 

 discoidal lunule and small spot below costa towards apex ; a rather 

 diffused brown terminal band, its inner edge incurved from vein .3 



