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bad in auv number durinsc tbe rains. In the drv weather, owinw to tlie food-plant 

 dying down, it is not at all common anywhere. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Malay Peninsula, Java, Siam, Sam- 

 bawa, Bali. 



A very common species, recorded from many localities within our limits. The 

 larva and pupa are from Davidson's original drawings, not previously published. 



Genus TAMELA, nov. 



Kerana, Distant (part), Rhop. Malayana, p. 402 (1886). "Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 148 (1891); id. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 115; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 430. Elwes and 

 Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 220. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa before end of cell ; cell long, nearly two- thirds the 

 length of costa, discocellulars in an oblique straight line, the lower about half as long- 

 as the middle discocellular, vein 3 from a little before lower end of cell, 2 from about 

 one-third from the base, sub-median vein recurved ; costa slightly arched, apex blunt, 

 outer margin evenly rounded, about as long as the hinder margin in the male, the 

 hinder margin somewhat the longer in the female. JllnJifing, vein 7 emitted close to 

 upper end of cell, discocellulars and vein 5 faint, 3 from close to the lower end of tlie 

 cell, 2 from less than one-thii'd from the end ; costa and outer margin evenly rounded. 

 Antennas long, more than half the length of the costa of forewing ; club moderate, with 

 a pointed crook ; palpi with the second joint inclining upwards, densely scaled, third 

 joint minute, bluntly conical ; hind tibise with short recumbent hairs and with two pairs 

 of long spurs ; no secondary sexual characters. 



Type, Nisonindes diodes, Moore. 



Differs from the genus Kerana in the absence of the strongly marked secondary 

 sexual characters on both wings in that genus, and in many other important characters ; 

 the type of Kerana is Astictopterus armatus ; the contour of the wings is different, the 

 costa of the forewing in armatus is much more highly arched, the hindwing is shorter ; 

 the antennae of armatus has a shorter and more gradual club containing on its underside 

 short stiff bristles ujj to its tip, a character altogether absent in diodes ; in the forewing 

 the origin of vein 3 is much farther from the lower end of the cell than it is in 

 diodes, nearly twice as far ; and in the hindwing also the origin of vein 3 is much 

 farther from the lower end of the cell. 



TAMELA DIOCLES. 



Plate 805, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Nisoniades diodes, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 787. 



Astictopterus diodes, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359. Moore, id. 1878, p. 842. Moore, Journ. 



