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Genus BADACARA. 



Forewing shorter and comparatively broader, and more regularly triangular in 

 form than in Caduga ; cell shorter ; discocellulars acutely bent in the middle. 

 Hindioing also shorter and broader, and more triangular in shape, the outer margin 

 conspicuously more oblique; cell shorter. Male ivitli a small sjiatular-sliaijed patch 

 of scent-scales on the suhmedian and interna I vein with accompanying dilatation of 

 each vein, and a much larger contiguous patch on the upper side of the lower median 

 vein, but which is not traversed by a dilatation of the vein. 



Type. — B. Nilgiriensis. 



This genus is confined to a single known species, and is a shorter and some- 

 what broader insect than Caduga, with more regularly triangular form of both wings, 

 which have a peculiar pattern of markings assimilating more to tliose in Pai'antica. 



BADACARA NILGIRIENSIS (Plate 16, fig. 1, \ a,h, S ? )■ 



Danais Nilgiriends, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 4-1. 



Banais. (Chittira) Nilgiriends, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of Ind., &c., p. 43, pi. 6, fig. 9, c? (1882). 

 Caduga Nilgiriends, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 251 ; Hampson, Joum. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bang. 1888, p. 347. 



Imago. — Upperside fuliginous black. Foreivlng with a very bluish-white 

 cell-streak divided into three separate very slender portions, the two upper 

 portions of which are more or less obsolescent, especially in the male ; three costal 

 spots before the apex, below which are two narrow streaks, the lower elongated ; 

 the usual five small discal spots, two elongated narrow terminally- joined streaks 

 between the lower median and submedian veins, and a very slender basal streak 

 below the submedian vein ; a submarginal series of seven small rounded spots, and 

 an incomplete marginal row of small dots. Hindwing with a bluish-white narrow 

 fusiform streak within the cell ; five contiguous small discal spots, four long slender 

 abdominal streaks, a submarginal series of small spots, the two upper of which are 

 the largest, the third being dentate, the others small ; a marginal row of small dots. 

 Head, thorax, and legs black, front and side of palpi and dorsal streaks on thorax 

 and femora beneath white ; head, thorax in front and beneath spotted with white ; 

 abdomen fuhginous-black above, greyish beneath with white segmental bands. 

 Male with spatular-shaped patches of scent- scales blackish, disposed as in C. tytia 

 and C. melaneus. Underside fuliginous-brown; markings as above, but more 

 defined; the discal area of forewing broadly blackish, and the hindwing clouded with 

 dai'k brown across the discal area between the veins. 



Expanse, 2^ to 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — S. India (Malabar and Travancore Hills). 

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