326 GEOMETBID^E. 



Genus RAMBARA. 

 Rambara, Moore, Lap. Ceyl in, p. 458 (1887). 



Type, E. saponaria, Guen. 



Mange. Madagascar ; Formosa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Java ; and Australian region. 



Palpi porrect and hairy ; antennae long and slender, minutely 

 serrate in male, ciliated in female ; legs very long and slender ; 

 fore tibiae short ; hind tibiae with fold and tuft, and without spurs 

 in male. Fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle ; 10 absent ; 11 becoming 

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

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



3581. Rambara saponaria, Guen. Phal ii, p. 16 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 203, fig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 3964. 

 Zanclopteryx fragilis, Sutt. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 687. 



White ; abdomen with black band or spots on 2nd segment ; 

 wings semihyaline. Fore wing with an antemedial series of three 

 fulvous spots, nearly joined on inner margin by a curved post- 

 medial series ; a black spot at end of cell. Hind wing with fulvous 

 spot at end of cell and curved postmedial series, excurved between 

 veins 2 and 5 ; both wings with marginal series of black specks. 



Hob. Formosa; Travancore ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exjp. 20millim. 



3582. Rambara infelix, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 858, pi. 56, fig. 13; 



C. 8f S. no. 3963. 



$ . Differs from saponaria in having no black mark on 

 abdomen ; fore wing with no black spot at end of cell ; hardly 

 a trace of fulvous spots ; a few fulvous specks on cost a and some 

 fulvous scales on outer and inner areas of each wing. 



Hob. Poona; Khandala. Exp. 20 millirn. 



3583. Rambara ochreicostalis, Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, p. 150, pi. 169, 



fig. 21. 



Differs from saponaria in having no black mark on the abdomen. 



Fore wing with a broad, pale, 

 fulvous costal fascia ; the 

 antemedial series of specks 

 curved and well separated 

 from the oblique postmedial 

 series, which consists of 

 distinct lunules ; a sub- 

 Fig. m.-Rambara ochreicostalis, ' rf. *. marginal series of fulvous 



spots, not extending to apex. 

 Hind wing with a submarginal series of fulvous spots. 



Hab. Ceylon; Burma; Andamans; Malacca; Nias. E.cp. 

 30 millim. 



