8 LBIACODIDJE.— PHALERID.E. 



CANIA, Walk. 



Cania sericea. (Plate CII. fig. 7.) 

 Cania sericea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Net. v. p. 1178. n. 1 (1855). 



Sericeous : primaries above pale testaceous, with faiut cupreous reflections ; a large basal 

 patch, an oblique band beyond the middle and parallel to outer margin, and a diffused 

 external border pale reddish cupreous : secondaries pale stramineous : thorax greyish white, 

 the head and collar bright ochreous; abdomen pale stramineous. Under surface uniformly 

 ochreous. Expanse of wings 32 rnillim. 



North India. 



APHENDALA, Walk. 



Aphendala transversata. (Plate CII. fig. 8.) 

 cJ . Aphendala transversata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Met. Suppl. ii. p. 495 (1865). 



Pale brownish grey : primaries above sericeous, with a few scattered darker scales ; a 

 dark brown oblique line, bordered externally with pure white, across the basal third; a brown 

 spot on the second median interspace, and a straight dark-brown line bordered externally by 

 a diffused white band near the outer margin ; outer margin narrowly edged with brown ; 

 fringe brown, traversed by two pale stripes. Uuder surface uniform brownish grey, rather 

 darker than above. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 



North India. 



PHALERIDiE. 



PHALERA, Hubn. 



Phalera raya. (Plate CIII. fig. 1.) 



Phalora raya, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 133. n. 980 (1858-59). 



Primaries above silvery grey, sparsely irrorated with black scales, the base and costal two 

 fifths tinted with bronze-brown, excepting two spots in the discoidal cell; an interrupted 

 subbasal black line, a second at basal two sevenths, a third line formed of an angulatcd scries 

 of black lunules just before the external fourth; a few longitudinal black dashes between the 

 last line and the outer margin ; a Large subcuneiform costal reddish clay-coloured patch at 

 :i]ic\, its inner margin bounded by the lunular black line, its outer margin with a zigzag white 

 edge; fringe spotted with ferruginous; an oblique dusky patch at external angle, partly 

 bounded internally by the last lunule of the third black line: secondaries sericeous greyish 

 brown ; fringe white, spotted with ferruginous : thorax red-brown varied with blackish, 



