124 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



ChAUACTEES of the TuAIDINiE. 



Imago. — Forewing triangular; subcostal vein five branched; median and 

 submediau vein not connected by a short cross veinlet near the base. Hind wing 

 generally short ; exterior margin deutated or tailed ; precostal vein and basal 

 interno-costal cell present. Body generally slender ; palpi long, projecting beyond 

 the front ; antennoe short ; legs moderately long, tibia of forelegs with a lateral 

 spur; tarsi with two long juxtaposed claws. 



Larva (Thais). — Cylindrical, rather short ; with a subdorsal, lateral, and a 

 sublateral row of short fleshy spinous tubei'cles on each side, and a nuchal Y-shaped 

 tubercle on the front segment. 



Puta. — Cylindrically conical, somewhat angular in front. Attached by the tail 

 and a girth round the middle. 



Genus ARMANDIA. 



Armandia, Blanchard, Comptes Rend. Ixxii. p. 809 (1871). Oberthiir, Etudes Entom. ii. p. 18 (1876) ; 



Staiulinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 51, pi. 3 (1S92). Leech^ Butt, of China, etc. ii. 



p. 489 (1893). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 247 (1896). 

 Bhutanitis, Atkinson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 570. 



Imago. — Foreiring elongated, somewhat narrow and triangulate; costa very 

 slightly arched from the base, apex rounded, exterior margin very obhque, posterior 

 margin short ; costal vein extending to three-fourths the margin ; cell long, 

 reaching fully to half the wing ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before 

 end of the cell, second at an equal distance between it and the end, third at one- 

 fourth beyond the cell, fourth and fifth at about one-half beyond ; discocellulars 

 inwardly oblique, upper very short, middle concave, upper radial from the angle, 

 lower discocellular and radial appearing as a fourth median branch, the radial being 

 arched ; median veinlets equidistant apart, lower recurved ; submedian vein straight, 

 and with a basal lower short branchlet. EinJwing with the anterior margin rather 

 short, elongated posteriorly, exterior margin convex, dentated, with a lengthened 

 tail from the upper median and a shorter narrower tail from the lower median 

 veinlets ; precostal vein curved inward ; costal vein short ; interno-basal costal cell, 

 broad, oval ; discoidal cell long, extending to fully half the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell ; discocellulars outwardly oblique, radial 

 from near lower end. Body somewhat slender, clothed with fine hairs ; front of 

 head hairy ; palpi porrect, slender, extending beyond the front, clothed with fine 

 hairs; legs moderately long, slender, tarsal claws long; forelegs rather smoothly 

 scaled above, femur finely hairy beneath, tibia shorter than the femur, laxly scaled 

 beneath, and with a prominent lateral spur, fore tarsi long, terminal joint with two 

 long juxtaposed claws, the outer claw being slender and shortest, their base having 



