12 SPHINGIM:. 



Panacra mydon. Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, i. 12. 66 (1887). 

 Panacra scapnlaris (part). Walker: viii. 157 (1856). 



Type. Silhet, in B. M. 

 a. Silhet. 



48. Panacra frena. n. sp. : PI. i. f. 5. 



Above, rosy fawn colour suffused with brown, with dark brown 

 transverse bands and patches in fore-wings, abdomen with some 

 brown marks, and thorax brown ; fore-wings with brown marks in 

 the costa, a medial transverse very oblique band, from the hinder 

 border before the middle, to the costa near the apex, composed of 

 four or five sinuous lines on a dark ground, this dark colour extend- 

 ing on the hinder margin to the angle, the inner line of the band 

 distinct and nearly straight, a brown angular patch on the outer 

 margin, the apex of the angle touching the band above the centre, 

 and a brown apical mark, some sinuous fine lines also between the 

 band and the base all running parallel with the band. 



Hind-wings brown, with a yellowish streak running inwards sub- 

 marginally from the anal angle, underside fawn colour, palpi, face and 

 pectus white, fore-wings with the basal two-thirds suffused with 

 brown above the hinder marginal space, a discal brown band with 

 two or three dentations outwards at the middle, and a submarginal 

 brown patch as above. Hind- wings with three central transverse 

 lines marked with spots as if dentated, and with an outer marginal 

 band. 



Expanse of wings, 6 i j%, ? 2^ inches. 



a. Silhet (type) I ?, 2 ?. 



Allied to Panacra mydon (Boisd.) ; also a Silhet insect, and to 

 P. scapularis (Horsf.) from Java, is smaller than either, is quite 

 differently coloured, and has the bands and patches of a different 

 pattern, the central band being less oblique and more compact, 

 and the basal lines altogether different ; though the three examples 

 before me are good specimens, they are old ones, and the bodies 

 are somewhat rubbed. 



There are some examples of this species in the B. M. from Silhet, 

 unnamed. 



49. Panacra scapularis. 



Panacra scapularis. Walker: viii. 157 (1856). 



Moore: Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 269, pi. 9, figs. 5, 5^, 



larva (1857). 

 Semper : Verz. Zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 679 



(1867). 



Butler : T. Z. S., Lond., ix. p. 551 (1876). 

 Cotes and Swinh.: Cat. Moths of India, i. 12. 70 



(1887). 



