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Genus lAMBIODES, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed; "palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; Irons witli 

 large prominence with raised corneous walls at extremity ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae oi' female somewhat laminate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the prothorax without crests, the mesothorax with small paired crests, 

 the metathorax witii decumbent crest; tibife moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termeu evenly 

 curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



3552. lambiodes anormalis. 



TaracJie anormalis, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xvii. p. 474 (1906). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some black and 

 whitish scales, the mesothorax with pair of small rufous crests ; 

 palpi whitish in front ; pectus whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with some greyish, the basal crest 

 pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing with the basal area greyish red-brown irrorated with 

 some white-tipped black scales ; an indistinct curved subbasal lino 



Fig. 168. — lambiodes anm-nialis, 2 



from costa to submedian fold and with black point at eosta ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved, with black spot at 

 costa and slight black marks before it above and below vein 1 ; 

 orbicular rather triangular, with fuscous centre and ochreous 

 annulus defined by black except below ; reniform bluish fuscous 

 with slight ochreous annulus incompletely denned by black; an 

 indistinct black medial line oblique from costa to reniform and 

 waved below the cell, reddish towards inner margin ; the outer 

 half of medial area suffused with bluish fuscous to submedian 

 fold ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with ochreous, white 

 with two black spots at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 4, a blue-black patch beyond it on costal area with whitish 

 points on costa and black streaks on the veins, slight black streaks 

 above and below vein 5, an ochreous mark above vein 4, then 

 black points in the interspaces to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 whitish, hardly traceable except towards costa, excurved below 



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