LABAKDA. 393 



■wing grey suffused and irrorafced witli brown ; a dark brown patch 

 on basal costal area defined by the curved blackish subbasal line ; 

 antemedial line blackish, rather oblique, sinuous; a slight discoidal 

 striga ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from below middle of 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved, a dark patch beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely 

 waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards 

 at discal fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, the cilia pale at tips. 



Hah. Flokes ( Wallace), 1 § type ; Br. N. Guinea. Exp. 20 

 millim. 



Genus LAB AND A. 



Type. 



iftftaMfZff, Wlk. xvii. 28-1 (1859) herbealis. 



£ariana, Wlk. xxxii, 603 (1865) t^tihtmiscosa. 



Lazanda, Wlk. xxxii. 604 (1865) , fasciata. 



Gerbatha, Wlk. xxxiii. 913 (1865) semipars. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at 

 extremity ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennig of male ciliated; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; build 

 slender ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests ou two basal 

 segments, very long and slender in male. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long 

 areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully 

 developed from above angle ; 6, 7 fi'om upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing yellow huntei. 



15. Hind wing fuscous browu. 



a. Hind wing with yellow terminal band from apex to 



vein 2 ceylusalis, 



b. Hind wing without yellow terminal band, 

 a'. Fore wing with more or less green. 



a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 



filled in with white except towards costa chloromela, 



W. Fore wing without white on ante- and postmedial 

 lines, 

 a^. Hind wing on underside without white post- 

 medial band. 



a''. Fore wing bright blue-green viridalis. 



b*. Fore wing dull yellow-green. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa. 

 a^. Fore wing with the subbasal line ex- 

 curved below costa fasciata. 



b'K Fore wing with the subbasal line straight. 

 a7. Fore wing with the antemedial line 



angled outwan's below costa saturalis, 



b'l. Fore wing with the antemedial line 



not angled outwards below costa ... achine. 

 b'". Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique 



from costa to vein 6 deniilinen. 



b^ Hind wing on underside with white postmedial 

 band. 

 «''. Fore wing vrith the postmedial line strongly 



dentate below costa herbealis. 



