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Palpi rather short and thickly clothed with hair. Antennae 

 with the branches long in male, short in female. Legs thickly 

 clothed with hair ; minute terminal pairs of spurs to mid and hind 

 tibiae. Fore wing broad and rounded; veins 6 and 7 stalked; 

 the stalk of veins 8 and 9 rather short. Hind wing with veins 4 

 and 5 from angle of cell ; 8 curved and met by a bar from 7 ; the 

 accessory costal veinlets numerous and prominent. 



938. Lenodora vittata, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1440; C. $ S. no. 1444. 



Miresa subcostalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 476; C. $ S. no. 1443; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 137, figs. 3, 3 a, b (larva). 



c?. Bright red-brown; fore wing with a white streak below 

 the costa from the base to near outer margin below the apex. 



$ . Pale ochreous brown, with only a slight red tinge. 



Some Ceylon specimens are much duller in colour than typical 

 males. 



Fig. 294. Lenodora vittata, $ . \. 



Larva. Purplish black above, pale brown below ; a sublateral 

 series of black streaks and dots ; anterior somites dorsally divided 

 by pale bands ; subdorsal tufts of white hair on 5th to llth 

 somites. 



Hob. Almorah ; throughout S. India and Ceylon. Exp., 3 43- 

 48, $ 50-54 millim. 



939. Lenodora signata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 374; C. $ S. 



no. 1442. 

 Lenodora fasciata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 374 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 1440 ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, pi. 142, fig. 6. 

 Lenodora fusca, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 374 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1441. 



c? . Bright red-brown ; fore wing with an indistinct darker 

 postmedial curved band. 



$ . Umber-brown ; fore wing with a pale indistinct postmedial 

 band. 



The form signata has a pale spot at end of cell of fore wing ; 



