BODABA. 131 



b'. Palpi hardly reaching vertex of 



head; fore wing with vein 10 free. 2. ENDOTBICHA, p. 132. 

 B. Palpi porrect. 



a. Palpi triangularly scaled, 3rd joint 



hidden in hair ; both wings with 

 veins 4, 5 approximated towards 

 origin 9. COTACHENA, p. 142. 



b. Palpi rostriform and downcurved; 



both wings with veins 4, 5 stalked. 

 a'. Fore wing with vein 10 free; 



antennas with the shaft smooth . . 8. ROSTBIPALPUS, p. 142. 

 b'. Fore wing with vein 10 stalked 



with 7, 8, 9 ; antennae with the 



shaft annulate 7. PLEONECTOIDES, p. 141. 



c. Palpi straight, two or three times 



length of head ; maxillary palpi 



triangularly scaled. 

 a'. Palpi thickly fringed with hair 



above and below 5. TBICHOPHYSETIS, p. 138. 



b'. Palpi nearly naked 6. HENDECASIS, p. 140. 



Genus RODABA. 

 Rodaba, Moore, Lep. Afk. p. 205 (1888). 



Type, R. angulipennis, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching far above vertex 

 of head and fringed with hair on both sides, the 3rd acute; 

 maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; antennse nearly simple ; 

 tibias with the spurs long. Fore wing with the costa nearly 

 straight ; the apex falcate ; the outer margin excised from apex 

 to vein 4, where it is highly angled, then excised to outer angle ; 

 vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 10 stalked 

 with 7, 8, 9. Hind wing with the apex somewhat produced ; 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



4483. Rodaba angulipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 205; C. $ S. 

 no. 4492. 



Dark coppery red. Fore wing with the medial part of costa 



leaden grey ; an indistinct 

 dark-edged grey antemedial 

 band angled below the cell ; a 

 dark discocellular spot ; a 

 double oblique grey post- 

 medial band with fuscous 

 Fig. ^.-EodabTangnlipennis, 3 } . suffusion on its edges extend- 

 ing to tbe outer margin below 



the angle ; cilia white, dark at apex and middle. Hind wing 

 fuscous, with traces of curved double postmedial line. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 26 millim. 



