226 



X0CTTJID33. 



and without crests ; tibias fringed with long hair; abdomen smoothly scaled 

 and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the tenner, evenly 

 curved and notcrenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6. 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4600. Mudaria cornifrons. 



Mudaria cornifrons, Moore, Indian Museum Notes, iii. p. 09 (1893) : 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 24a. 



Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown and more or less 

 irrorated with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous 

 wdiite dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing ochreous white 

 thickly irrorated with pale brown and with a few black scales ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line black, double towards costa, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 outwards to inner margin : orbicular and reni'brm forming- a 

 confluent patch of the ground-colour defined on inner and outer 



Fig. 87 '. — Mudaria comifrons, $ . ]. 



sides and below by black, extending to below cell ; postmedial line 

 black, double on costal half, minutely dentate, angled outwards 

 at vein 5 and oblique below vein 3 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 dentate, and with slight dentate dark marks before it at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and oblique below vein 3 : a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia whitisb at base, brownish at tips. 

 Hind wing pure semihyaline white, the termen with fine brownish 

 line and some black points towards apex. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform patch strongly 

 defined by diffused black. 



Hob. Bengal, Calcutta (Cotes), 3 tf , 1 ? type. Exp. 40-44 

 millim. 



Larva. Feeds in the pods of the Silk-Cotton (Bombax malabarlcum) 

 snd pupates in the soil in cocoons made of earth and silk. 



Genus 0CHR0CALAMA, nov. 



Type, O. xanthia. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching about tu middle 

 of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front; frons witb long corneous 

 process bifid at extremity and corneous plate below it excised in front ; eyes 



