264 



AKCTIADiE. 



Yellowish white ; patagia and thorax with metallic purplish- 

 black patches ; legs orange-yellow. Fore wing with the costa 

 black to the antemedial purplish-black band, which is slightly 

 angled in cell ; a similar band from costa beyond middle, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous to vein 4, where it is angled and becomes sub- 

 terminal. Hind wing in male with a very obscure oblique shade 



Fig. 181. — Padenia transversa. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



from termen at vein 5 to inner margin above tornus. Underside 

 of fore wing in male with the costal fold orange, with dark spot on 

 it beyond middle and fuscous suffusion on terminal area; the fringe 

 of hair on hind wing brown. 



Hah. Q-EYX,(m {Temphton), 1 $ type, Dickoya, Pundaloya (6rree«), 

 2 d" , 2 5 ; Andamaks. Exp. 24 millim. 



Subsp'. 1. Pore wing with the bands broader and more distinctly 

 angled. 



Hah. NiLeiRis, 2 $ (^Hampson). 



553. Padena dnplicana. (Plate XX7. fig. 16.) 



Tospitis dufUcana, Wlk. sxviii. p. 429 (1863); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 365. 



Pure white ; patagia and thorax with cupreous-fuscous patches ; 

 palpi and legs tinged with orange-yellow. Fore wing with oblique 

 cupreous-fuscous antemedial band expanding at inner margin ; a 

 similar baud from costa beyond middle, oblique and slightlj^ sinuous 

 to vein 3, where it is angled and becomes subterminal. Underside 

 of fore wing with the costal fold tinged with orange ; the fringe of 

 hair on hind wing brown. 



Hah. BiTKMA, Kangoon (Scott), 1 $ ; Boeneo, Sandakan (Pryer), 

 1 2 J Sarawak (Wallace), 1 $ type : Sumatra (Forbes), 1 d ; Java, 

 Arjuno (Doherty), 1 6 . Eap. 24 millim. 



Genus STENARCHA, nov. 



Type, S. stenopa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, short ; antennfe of male with 

 bristles and cilia ; tibia; with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 2 from 

 beyond middle of cell ; 3 from close to angle ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6 from below 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, and 10 stalked ; 9 absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 very strongly stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



