478 koctuip.t:. 



and tarsi yellow; abdomen wlute dorsall}' tinged witli brownish 

 and crimson. Foro wing scarlet, the costal area, cell, middle of 

 inner area and the terminal area suffused with brown and irrorated 

 with grey, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; the costal edge 

 scarlet with a small yellow patch at base defined by scarlet below 

 and with some yellow towards apex defined by scarlet below ; 



Fig. 176. — Td'pnth'sa scaigii'uiea, (^ . \. 



the termen yellow defined on inner side by scarlet; traces of a 

 brown anfemedial line excurved below costa, then oblique ; a round 

 white discoidal spot ; traces of a brown postmedial line, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique; cilia yellow intersected with 

 scarlet at apex. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Lidderd(de), 1 c? . E.vp. 30 millim. 



Genus CHANDICA. 



Type. 

 Chandica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 28G (1888) quadrqjennis. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palj^i upturned, the 2nd joint, reach ing to vertex 

 of head, slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with ridge of hair 

 above; eves large, round ; antenuiE of male somewhat laminate and almost 

 simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and with slight ridge-like 

 crest ; mid tibiae fringed on both sides with long hair, the fore and mid tibi;c 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen with small dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore 

 wing with the costa arched near base and somewhat excised at middle ; the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creuulate; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form a minute areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 

 excised from apex to vein 3, produced to a lobe at middle, then slightly excised 

 to tornus, the inner area long ; veins 3. 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle of 

 cell ; 8 anastomising with tlie cell near base only ; the npperside with fringes 

 of hair below the cell and on inner area, the underside with the costal area 

 clothed with long rough scales. 



6828. Chandica quadripennis. 



Chandica quadripennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 286 (1888) ; Ilmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii, p. 127 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 285. 



J. Head and tegulae bright yellow; palpi wilh the 2nd joint 

 crimson behind ; frons fuscous with crimson bar above ; antennae 

 tinged with crimson, brownish towards tips ; a spot at back of 

 head and the base of tegulae crimson ; thorax flesh-red with some 

 fuscous at base of patagia and on dorsum ; pectus and legs white, 



