370 PYBAUDJG. 



black area less extensive ; the postraedial line reduced to a black 

 mark on inner side of the postmedial patch, which has its upper 

 part brighter red, its lower part whitish and fulvous ; the line 

 beyond it less excurved ; the apical area white ; a brown spot on 

 margin below vein 2. 



Hob. Bombay. Earp. 28 milliin. 



Genus LEUCINODES. 



Leucinodes, Guen. Delt. 8f Pyr. p. 221 (1854). 



Type, L. elegantalis, Guen., from S. America. 



Range. Neotropical region; S. Africa; India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Malayan and Australasian subregions. 



Differs from Analyta in the 2nd and 3rd joints of palpi being 

 considerably longer, the 1st joint with a tuft of forwardly project- 

 ing hair; antenuaB slightly annulated and not thickened. Tore 

 wing with vein 7 not approximated to 8; hind wing with the 

 discocellulars highly angled ; both wings with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, 4, 5 well separated at origin, and the outer margin 

 somewhat excurved or angulated at middle. 



5073. Leucinodes orbonalis, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 223 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 179, fig. 9 ; Cotes, Indian Museum Notes, iii, p. 100 

 (larva); C. $ S. no. 4290. 

 Pycnarmon discerptalis, C. fy S. no. 4315 (nee Wlk.). 



White ; the head and thorax variegated with black and brown. 

 Fore wing with the base fulvous, ferruginous, and black, followed 



by an incomplete sinuous black 

 line ; large fulvous orbicular and 

 reniform patches with some black 

 on their edges and almost extend- 

 ing to costa; a black-edged 

 ferruginous triangular patch from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 with a sinnous line beyond it ; a 



Leucinodes wbonalis, 3. i. P ale , fulvous sinuous postmedial 



band not reaching costa ; a sinuous 



black submarginal line obsolescent towards outer angle and with a 

 ferruginous and fuscous band beyond it, from below costa to vein 

 2 ; some black specks on margin. Hind wing opalescent, with 

 black speck at upper angle of cell and spot at lower angle ; an 

 ill-defined postmedial black line nearly straight from costa to vein 

 3, then recurved and sinuous ; some ill-defined pale fulvous sub- 

 marginal patches and some black specks on margin. 



Larva bores in the fruit of the ' Brinjal/ Solanum melongcla. 



Hob. S. Africa; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; 

 Andamans ; Java ; Duke of York Island. Exp. 24 millim. 



