210 LEPIDOPTKRA INDICA. 



Genus MELANOCYMA. 

 Melanocyma, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 186. 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, broad ; exterior margin oblique. Forewing 

 triangular ; costa arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, posterior 

 angle rounded, posterior margin lobate near the base; cell broad, upper 

 end extending to nearly half the wing, lower end to three-fifths ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at some distance before end of the cell, second at two- 

 thirds beyond end of the cell, third, fourth, and fifth nearer the apex ; upper 

 discocellular short, angled close to the subcostal, lower discocellular long, much 

 recurved ; radials from angles near subcostal ; median veinlets wide apart, equi- 

 distant ; submediau recurved near the base. Hindwing obconical, anterior margin 

 long, nearly straight, apex obtusely rounded, exterior margin oblique and rounded 

 posteriorly ; furnished with a recumbent androconial tuft of hairs at base of the 

 subcostal, and a row of fine lougish hairs extending between the submedian and 

 internal vein, which terminate more thickly above the anal angle ; subcostal branches 

 and radial emitted together near the base of costal ; cell open ; medians wide apart ; 

 middle median emitted at about half the wing. Body slender ; palpi slender, porrect, 

 finely hairy above ; antennae slender, and with an elongated club. 



Type. — M. Faunula. 



MELANOCYMA FAUIfULOIDES (Plate 167, fig. 1, la, ? ). 



Melanocyma faunuloides, de Niceville, Journal Bombay Nat Hist. Society, 1895, p. , pi. N. 

 fig 2, ?. 



Imago. — " Female. Upperside, both icings very pale fuscous or French-grey, all 

 the black markings of the underside showing through faintly by transparency. 

 Forewing with the veins slightly inf uscated. Hindiving with the outer two-thirds of 

 the abdominal margin, and the anal region widely as far as the inter-nervular fold in 

 the first median interspace ochreous-yellow, this colour being carried narrowly along 

 the outer margin as far as the second median nervule. Underside, both wi^igs slightly 

 paler than above, especially the hitidwing. Forewing with a large round black spot near 

 the middle of the discoidal cell ; a broad black line across the cell beyond its middle, 

 joined to two similar lines running along the subcostal and median nervures from 

 the base of the wing, the latter broadening out towards the base of the submedian 

 interspace ; the anterior half of the discocellular nervules black, fining away to nothing 

 posteriorly ; two broad slightly irregular nearly parallel black lines commencing at 

 the subcostal and ending at the submedian nervure, the inner line somewhat 

 lunulated between the median nervules ; a very fine obscure submarginal blackish 

 line, with an extremely fine black line on the margin. Hindwing with the abdominal 

 margin ochreous-yellow of a paler shade than on the upperside, this colour becoming 



