ABRADE. 99 



Genus ARRADE. 



Arrade, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 82 (1863). 

 Lophocraspedon, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 135 (1893). 



Type, A. erebusalis, Wlk. 



Range. Egypt ; Bombay ; Ceylon. 



Palpi obliquely porrect, of moderate length ; the 2nd joint hairy ; 

 a sharp frontal tuft ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; the abdomen long ; legs naked. 

 Fore wing long and narrow; the apex acute; the outer margin 

 nearly straight ; a large tuft of scales on inner margin beyond 

 middle; veins 6, 7 from angle of cell; 8, 9, 10 stalked from 

 before the end, or 10 absent. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked 

 or from cell ; 6, 7 stalked ; 5 from middle of discocellulars. 



3005. Arrade erebusalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 82 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 163, fig. 21 (Gyrtona hylusalis) ; C. fy 8. no. 4527. 



Reddish brown. Pore wing 

 with oblique medial line ; a post- 

 medial line highly angled beyond 

 cell ; a sinuous submarginal line ; 

 the three lines with slight tufts 

 of raised scales on them ; a 



^ ^.-Arrade erebusalis^. >. marginal dark line. Hind wing 



paler. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



3006. Arrade massalis, Sidnh. P. Z. S. 1885. p. 866. pi. 57, fig. 10 ; 



C. $ S. no. 4528. 



c? . Differs from erebusalis in the fore wing being irrorated with 

 black ; an ochreous subbasal spot below cell ; a curved antemedial 

 line edged with white ; the reniform small and ochreous with black 

 outline; the postmedial line edged with white; a black sub- 

 marginal spot and series of black marginal specks. Hind wing 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Bombay. Exp. 22 millim. 



3007. Arrade cristata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 135, pi. 168, fig. 4. 



c? . Fulvous yellow ; head roughly scaled ; abdomen tinged with 

 fuscous ; fore tarsi extremely slender. Fore wing with indistinct 

 waved subbasal and antemedial lines ; a white speck at end of cell ; 

 a postmedial line highly excurved round cell ; a submarginal 

 dentate line with black patches beyond it at middle and outer 

 angle ; the tufts on inner margin "black ; some white specks on 

 costa towards apex. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



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