478 NOCTUID. 
and erimson. Fore wing scarlet, the costal area, cell, middle of 
inner area and the terminal area suffused with brown and irrorated 
with grey, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; the costal edge 
scarlet with a small yellow patch at base defined by scarlet below 
and with some yellow towards apex defined by scarlet below; 
Fig. 176.— Tupadesa sanguinea, 3: }. 
the termen yellow defined on inner side by scarlet; traces of a 
brown antemedial line excurved below costa, then oblique; a round 
white discoidal spot; traces of a brown postmedial line, bent out- 
wards below costa, then oblique; cilia yellow intersected with 
scarlet at apex. Hind wing pale yellow. 
Tab, Stxuim (Lidderdale), 1 g. Exp. 30 millim, 
Genus CHANDICA. ties 
Chandica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 286 (1888)...............s0eseeee . quadripennis, 
Proboscis aborted, small; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head, slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth with ridge of hair 
above; eves large, round; antenne of male somewhat Jaminate and almost 
simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and with slight ridge-like 
erest ; mid tibise fringed on both sides with long hair, the fore and mid tibi:e 
smoothly scaled; abdomen with small dorsal crest on basal segment.» Fore 
wing with the costa arched near base and somewhat excised at middle ; the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form a minute areole; I1 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 
excised from apex to vein 3, produced to a lobe at middle; then slightly excised 
to tornus, the inner area long; veins 3. 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle of 
cell; 8 anastomising wlth the cell near base only ; the upperside with fringes 
of hair below the cell and on inner area, the underside with the costal area 
elothed with long rough seales: 
6828. Chandica quadripennis. 
Chandica quadripennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 286 (1888) ; Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind. ii. p. 127 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 285. 
¢. Head and tegule bright yellow; palpi with the 2nd joint 
erimson behind ; frons fuscous with crimson bar above; antennae 
tinged with crimson, brownish towards tips; a spot at back of 
head and the base of tegule crimson; thorax flesh-red with some 
fuscous at base of patagia and on dorsum; pectus and legs white, 
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and tarsi yellow; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brownish « 
