Il8 COLADLNIA, 



GENUS XLII. COLADENIA. 

 Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 180 (1881). 



Coladenia, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 397 (1886). 



" Wings short : forewing triangular, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 short, slightly oblique and waved ; cell two-thirds the length ; first subcostal 

 at less than one-third before end of the cell, first, second and third at 

 equal distances, fourth and fifth from end of the cell ; disco-cellulars 

 slightly inwardly oblique, upper radial from angle near subcostal, lower 

 from their middle ; the middle median at one-sixth, lower at four-sixths 

 before end of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing broad, somewhat 

 quadrate ; exterior margin slightly waved and angular in the middle ; 

 cell broad, extending more than half the wing ; second subcostal at one- 

 fourth before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars nearly straight, upper shortest, 

 radial from their middle ; the middle median from immediately before end 

 of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end. Body rather stout ; 

 palpi of lax hairy scales : terminal joint short, thick, cylindro-conical ; 

 antennae long with gradually thickened club and slender tip ; fore tibiae 

 tufted beneath ; femora pilose beneath, hind tibiae with a long tuft of hair 



above. 



Type : C. indrani" (Moovt, I. c.) 



167. COLADENIA INDRANI, MOORE. 



Plesiontum indrani, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 789. 



** Upperside bright golden-yellow : forewing with a discal series of 

 four semi-transparent white black-bordered spots, the first small and 

 above the extremity of the cell, the second large quadrate and within 

 the cell, the third elongate and beneath the latter, the fourth exterior to 

 their juncture : beneath these is a pale golden -yellow black- bordered spot : 

 before the apex is a series of four similar white spots with black border, 

 the three upper of which are conjugated ; a well-defined black spot beneath 

 the cell near the base ; exterior margin and cilia blackish, the latter white 

 at the posterior angle : hindwing with a semi-circular submarginal series of 

 black spots and two similar inner discal spots ; exterior margin black ; 

 cilia alternate black and white. Underside blackish-brown suffused with 

 golden-yellow, brightest on the hindwing : markings as above but more 

 clearly defined. Tip of palpi black : thorax, body, palpi (except tip), and 

 legs yellow- Antennae yellow, tip black. 



Expanse : if inches. y 



Habitat : Bengal." (Moore, I. c.) 



Recorded from Mhow (Swinhoe) ; Orissa (Taylov) ; Sikkim (de Nice- 

 villc ; Elwes). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



168.-COLADENIA TISSA, MOORE. 



Coladcnia tissa, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 180, pi. 67, fig. 6 (1881). 

 " Male. Upperside brownish-ferruginous, with indistinctly paler mar- 

 ginal lunules : forewing with three or four very small semi-transparent 



