BOSTRODES. — PARASADA. 281 



greyi'S^ defined liy some dark scales, minutely waved, excnrved at 

 middle ; cilia with a slight dark line near tips ; the underside 

 redder irrorated with brown, a curved dark postmedial line. 



Hub. Java {Horsfield), 7 cJ , 5 § type. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva whitish ; dorsal line blackish ; stigmatal line and inter- 

 segmental rings red; subdorsal and substigmatal series of paired 

 blackish marks. Pupates between two leaves spun together. 



5423. Bostrodes rubrifusa. (Plate CLVII. fig. 5.) 



Xanthoptera rubrifusa, Hrapsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 476 (1906). 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with purplish red and some 

 grey, the pectus and legs greyer ; abdomen greyish irrorated with 

 fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing with the basal half 

 greyish suffused with purplish pink, the costal area more fuscous, 

 the terminal half fuscous brown suffused with purplish red, the 

 termen and cilia pink ; traces of a minutely dentate subterminal 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing fuscous 

 with a greyish tinge, the cilia pink at tips ; the underside greyer 

 with traces of a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bab. Ceylon, North Central Province (Alston), 1 $ type. Eocp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus PARASADA, nov. 



Type, P. carnom. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending about twice the length 

 of head, the 2nd joint fringed with hair above and below, the 3rd sliort; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antenna of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches to apex ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibi^ slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced and acute, 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 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



5424. Parasada carnosa. 



Lycauges carnosa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 150, pi. 169. f. 9 (1893); 

 id. Moths Ind. iv. p. 518. 



Head and tegulse bright rufous ; thorax whitish tinged with 

 rufous behind ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 M'ith fuscous; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous. Pore 

 wing ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with black, 

 the costal edge rufous ; an indistinct rufous antemedial line slightly 

 angled outwards in submedian fold; a black point in middle of cell 

 and two discoidal points ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 greyish ochreous, very oblique from costa to vein 7 where it is 

 acutely angled, then inwardly oblique and with rufous band before 

 it; subterminal line slight, pale, oblique from costa to vein 7, then 

 waved and with traces of a series of blackish points on its inner 

 side ; terminal area more strongly sufl'used with rufous except at 



