374 



Genus LAB AND A. 



Labanda, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 284 (1859). 

 Banana, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 603 (1865). 

 Lazanda, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p v 604. 



Type, L. Tierbealis, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon. 



Palpi smoothly scaled, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd long and naked ; antennae very long and slender, minutely 

 ciliated in male. Thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen slender, 

 with dorsal tufts on the first two segments, and usually extending 

 far beyond the hind wing ; tibiae almost naked. Tore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; the outer margin evenly curved. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from lower angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from cell ; male 

 with the retinaculum not bar-shaped. 



2209. Labanda fasciata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 605 ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. 



ix, pi. 167, tig. 14 ; C. # S. no. 1651. 

 Diomea muscosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 898 ; C. $ S. no. 3016. 



Head and thorax brownish green, irrorated with black scales ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown. Pore wing green, irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal, double ante- and postmedial waved dark lines ; a diffused 

 fuscous antemedial or medial band usually present and traces of 

 the reniform; an irregularly dentate diffused submarginal line; 



Fig. 206. Labanda fasciata, $ . \. 



cilia dark intersected with green. Hind wing dark fuscous brown. 

 Underside with a pale mark on costa of fore wing before apex. 



Some specimens have whitish suffusion on the medial area of 

 fore wing. 



Hob. JX T ilgtris : Ceylon ; Moulmein. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2210. Labanda griseinigra, n. sp. 



Differs from fasciata in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 variegated with grey, black, and fuscous or brown, but without any 

 green tinge ; the postmedial line excurved beyond the cell. 



Some specimens are brownish, others fuscous and grey, whilst 

 one has the basal half of fore wing grey with a black patch at base 

 of costa and broad streak below median nervure from base to above 

 outer angle ; the medial area suffused with black. 



Hob. Sikhim (Elwes, Knyvett) ; Ganjam (Minchin). Exp. 28 

 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



