198 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



sinuous and rather more oblique than the lower, vein 3 emitted from near the lower 

 end of the cell, sub-median vein straight, not extending to the apex of the inner tail, 

 internal vein very long, slightly curved ; costa well arched, and formed to cover the 

 clandular streak on the forewingf. Antennae long;, more than half as long as the costa 

 of the forewing ; palpi much longer in the female than in the male. 

 Type, Thamala miniata, Moore. 



THAMALA MINIATA. 



Plate 740, figs. 4, $ , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ , 4c, ? . 



Thamala miniata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1878, p. 834, pi. 53, fig. 6, ^ ; id. Journ. Linn. See. Zool. 

 Loud. 1886, p. 42, pi. 4, fig. 1, $. Elwes and de Nice\alle, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 p. 429. de NicevUle, Butt, of India, iii. p. 388, pi. 28, figs. 212, ^ ; 213, ? (1890). Elwes, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 638. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep scarlet-vermilion. Forewing with a black costal 

 band limited by the sub-costal vein, expanding at the apex, continued down the outer 

 margin and sometimes running very narrowly along the hinder margin, the inner 

 margin of the band curving roundly from the upper end of the cell to the hinder 

 margin of the wing, the discocellulars and median vein heavily black, a little black 

 thickening at the base of the first median interspace, veins 2, 3 and 4 finely black, 

 as also is the outer poi'tion of the sub-median vein. Hindwing with the abdominal 

 fold blackish-brown ; tails red, tipped with white, and margined with black. Cilia of 

 both wings black. Underside pale ochreous-red. Forewing with a pale grey line 

 closing the cell, the hinder marginal space paler than the rest of the wing, an 

 outwardly curved, faint grey lunular discal line from the costa to the pale hinder 

 marginal space. Hindwing with a discal similar line from the costa outwardly, deeply 

 curved, then curving a little inwards and again outwards and round to the abdominal 

 margin where there is a small white patch attached to it, lined on both sides with 

 black, some black and white scales against the margin in the first two interspaces, 

 these white markings more or less obsolete in Some examples. Antennae black, with 

 minute white dots, tip of club dull red ; frons black, with a white band on each side, 

 legs white, with brown bands. 



Female. Upperside dull orange-red. Forewing with blackish-brown borders, 

 broader than in the male, and running in along the hinder margin diftusedly to the 

 base of the wing, the base also suffused with brown, the medial streak brown, broad, 

 in some examples very broad. Hindwing with the anal space suffused with dull blue- 

 grey, the lower half of the wing sufi'used with brownish, the upper half dull orange-red, 

 a diff'use brownish streak from the base to the middle, broadening outwardly. Under- 

 side as in the male, but paler. 



