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Genus CHORODNA. 

 Chorodna, Wlk. Cat, xxi, p. 314 (1860). 



Type, C. erebusaria, Wlk. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasis ; Borneo. 



Palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 joint minute ; antennae of male bipectinated to three fourths 

 length ; hind tibias dilated and with a tuft of hair from base ; 

 abdomen hairy below in male. Fore wing with the costa arched 

 towards apex ; the outer margin oblique and with two more or less 

 prominent excisions below apex ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle ; 10 free ; 11 given off 

 from 12. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with the outer margin produced to points 

 at the veins, especially at veins 4 and 7. 



3346. Chorodna pallidularia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 613; C. $ S. 



no. 3125. 



c? . Brownish ochreous, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; head 

 black. Fore wing with indistinct series of antemedial specks ; a 

 highly curved waved medial line ; a similar postmedial line ; the 

 outer area suffused with fuscous except at outer angle ; a sinuous 

 submarginal line obsolete towards costa; a speck at end of cell. 

 Hind wing with straight antemedial line ; a black spot at upper 

 angle of cell ; a postmedial series of specks ; a submarginal line 

 angled outwards at vein 6. Underside ochreous, with two waved 

 medial lines which cross each other at costa of hind wing ; outer 

 area of fore wing rufous. 



$ much paler. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Sibsagar. Exp., <$ 90, 105 millim. 



3347. Chorodna vulpinaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 614 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3129. 



3 . Differs from pallidularia in being olive-brown suffused with 

 rufous and slightly striated with black. Fore wing with a black 

 patch at and above upper angle of cell ; the medial line not waved 

 and joined by the postmedial line below cell ; a pale outer edge to 

 the postmedial line of both wings. Underside almost uniform. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 92 millim. 



3348. Chorodna adumbrata, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 235 ; C. $ 3. 



no. 3120. 



d . Differs from vulpinaria in being more fuscous and less 

 rufous ; hind wing with the outer margin more produced at the 

 veins ; the line almost marginal and less angled. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 64 millim. 



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