MECODINA. 3 



Genus MECODINA. 



Mecodina, Gum. Noct. iii, p. 372 (1852). 

 Nasaya, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 173 (1882). 

 Seneratia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 202 (1884) 

 Pautura, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 247. 

 Arseognatha, Hmpsn. Ill Net. ix, p. 129 (1893) 



Type, M. lanceola, Guen. 



Range. Japan; Himalayas, Assam, Malabar, Ceylon, Burma; 

 Andamans, Borneo. 



Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 3rd long and naked. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; mid 

 and hind tibiae slightly fringed with hair on outer side. Fore wing 

 with the apex rectangular ; the areole usually narrow. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from close to lower angle of cell. 







SECT. 1. (Mecodina). Antennas of male of moderate length, with 

 short cilia ; fore wing long and narrow. 



*2705. Mecodina lanceola, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 373, pi. 24, fig. 5- 

 C. $ S. no. 2818. 



c? . Red-brown ; the wings suffused with purplish or slate- 

 colour, with a fine brown-edged light marginal line. Fore wing 

 with indistinct waved subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal lines ; a dark spot at centre of cell ; the reniform narrow 

 and slate-coloured, with brown edges ; a semicircular brown apical 

 patch. Hind wing with indistinct nearly straight medial line, 

 and two waved postmedial lines with a dentate line beyond them. 

 Hob. Sylhet. Exp. 44 millim. 



SECT. II. (Arceognatha). Antennae of male of moderate length, 

 with long cilia. 



A. Fore and kind wings with the outer margin not excised towards 

 outer and anal angles. 



2706. Mecodina cineratia, Butl. Hi Het. iii, p. 27, pi. 47, fig. 4. 



Egnasia costipannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 184 ; C. fy S. no. 2735. 



Dark greyish brown. Fore wing with indistinct curved antemedial 

 line ; a black speck in cell and indistinct striga from costa above 

 it ; the outer half of wing, except the apical area, suffused with 



dark brown ; a black and 



^^fc^^V >^^S53 / Drown li ne on discocellu- 



^^|^4L /Z^SJS^3 ./ ^ ars an indistinct curved 



B ^^^EEE' yr lunulate postmedial line 



^=~ ^ ^/\ an d irregularly waved 



* i^\5^5^\ ll/ submarginal line with 



u\N^^^ ^ large triangular deep 



W x\j^v^ chocolate patch on it at 



Fig. 2. Mecodina cineratia, . }. costa, two specks below 



middle and one at outer 

 angle. Hind wing with traces of two antemedial lines ; a sinuous 



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