170 



1591. RaMla frontalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 508; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



ii, pi. 132, %. 5 j (7. 4* & no. 1300. 



c? . Eeddish ochreous ; fore wing 

 with the veins and interspaces 

 slightly streaked with red-brown. 

 Hind wing white. 



Type very faded. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



Fig. 109. Babila frontalis, 



Genus XANTHIA. 

 Xanthia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 82 (1816). 



Type, X. luteago, Fabr., from Europe. 



lianye. Europe ; Amur ; Himalayas ; Khasi Hills. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; 

 palpi porrect or obliquely upturned ; antennae of male cili;ited ; 

 thorax squarely scaled, with a high sharp crest behind the collar ; 

 abdomen without dorsal tufts, and clothed with long hair on the 

 back of proximal segments ; tibiae without spines. Fore wing 

 rather acute at apex ; the outer margin excurved at centre ; the 

 cilia slightly crenulate. 



1592. Xanthia albosignata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 355 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1977. 



cJ . Whitish, suffused with pale red-brown, the abdomen with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with whitish subbasal and antemedial lines, 

 the latter oblique ; orbicular and reniform ochreous with chestnut 

 outline, the latter with four white specks on its outer edge ; a 



Fig. 110. Xanthia albosignata, rf . {. 



postmedial whitish line excurved beyond cell, the area beyond it 

 suffused with ochreous, with an indistinct submarginal chestnut 

 line ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing whitish, the inner area suffused 

 with fuscous ; traces of a postmedial line. Underside with post- 

 medial line to both wings and cell-spot to hind wing. 

 Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 56 millim. 



1593. Xanthia melonina, Butl. Ill Het. vii, p. 57, pi. 128, fig. 7. 



Orange-yellow; collar and patagia with purplish lines on them ; 

 abdomen tinged with pink. Pore wing with the veins purplish ; 



