TEEBANIA. BOSTBA. 175 



excurved from below costa to vein 4. Underside of hind wing 

 with traces of postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim (Dudgeon); ISagas (Doherty). Eccp. 32 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



Genus BOSTRA. 



Bostra, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 123 (1863). 

 Scotomera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 622. 

 Megalomia, Rag. Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 35. 

 Comaria, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 639. 

 f Paredra, Snell. Midd.-Sum. iv (1), 8, p. 60 (1892). 



Type, B. illusella, Wlk. 



Range. Neotropical and Ethiopian regions : Japan ; Oriental 

 region. 



Palpi thickly clothed with hair, porrect, and the 3rd joint curved 

 downwards ; maxillary palpi filiform ; a sharp frontal tuft usually 

 present ; antennae of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibiae mode- 

 rately hairy. Fore wing usually short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male with strong serrations ; fore wing 

 narrow. 



4598. Bostra imperatrix, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 462. 



c?. Head and thorax very deep red-brown; frons and palpi 

 whitish ; abdomen tinged with orange. Fore wing very deep red- 

 brown mixed with black scales, and with a diffused fiery-orange 

 streak in internomedian interspace, and red suffusion between 

 veins of outer area ; the costal area dirty white, with some black 

 specks on costa to near apex ; indistinct antemedial and oblique 

 postmedial lines defined by whitish below the cell. Hind wing 

 fiery orange, the outer area suffused with red ; an oblique post- 

 medial line obsolete except beyond lower angle of cell and near 

 anal angle ; the cilia and a marginal line deep red. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 32 millim. 



4599. Bostra pallidicosta, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 158, pi. 172, fig. 17. 



c? . Bright rufous ; head brownish ; thorax with the scales 

 tipped with grey. Fore wing with the scales slightly grey-tipped ; 

 the costal area grey to near apex ; diffused purplish fuscous ante- 

 and postmedial lines, the former angled on median nervure and 

 connected by a streak with the oblique postmedial line ; a dark 

 cell-speck. Hind wing pale, suffused with fiery red towards outer 

 margin ; a slightly curved rufous postmedial line. 

 Hcib. Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



