GLORIANA. 169 



The type of this genus is a much stouter and more robust 

 insect than Miniodes, with the palpi stouter, and the abdomen, 

 which extends considerably beyond the hind-wings, and the 

 base of the hind-wings, densely clothed with hair. The fore- 

 wings are very broad, and rather pointed ; they have some- 

 what of a leaf-like pattern, and the inner margin is strongly 

 convex. The antennae are simple, and the legs without spines. 



I have been obliged to form a new genus for the beautiful 

 species described below, which has heretofore been referred 

 to two others, from both of which its structural characters 

 entirely separate it. 



GLORIANA ORNATA. 



(Plate CXLIIL) 

 Phyllodes ornata, Moore, Descr. Ind. Lepid. Atkinson, ii. p, 166 



(1882). 

 Miniodes ornata y Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. ii.p. 556, fig. 315 



This Moth is a native of India. It expands from four inches 

 to five inches and a half. The head and thorax are reddish- 

 brown, and the abdomen blue-black. The fore- wings are 

 chestnut-brown, 'thickly striated with dark brown, with about 

 five dusky transverse lines, and a blackish longitudinal streak 

 extending from the end of the cell to a little below the apex. 

 At the point where the transverse lines cross the streak they also 

 change their direction at an angle, and run nearly parallel to the 

 hind margin for the remainder of their course. Two pure white 

 spots are conspicuous at the end of the cell ; these are bor- 

 dered with black, and the lower and larger one is somewhat 

 triangular in shape. The hind-wings are blue-black, with a 

 broad ochre-yellow marginal band, which narrows and ceases 

 at some distance from the anal angle. The cilia are dark 

 brown. 



