282 LEPIDOPTEEA INBICA. 



middle discocellular, in the same straight line, concave ; second median nervule arising 

 well before the lower end of the cell ; first median nervule arising twice as far from the 

 base of the second as the second does from the end of the cell ; sub-median nervure 

 straight, a sexual tuft of hairs attached to the inner margin before its middle and 

 turned under and upwards. Hindwing large, broad, costa nearly straight, outer margin 

 broadly curved to the anal angle, slightly produced at the termination of the third 

 median nervule ; anal lobe very large ; abdominal margin excavated anterior to the 

 anal lobe ; costal nervure ending at the apex of the wing, very much curved at the 

 base, then straight to the apex ; first sub-costal nervule arising well before the apex 

 of the cell, ending at the apex of the wing ; upper discocellular nervule straight, lower 

 discocellular also straight, in the same straight line as the upper ; second median 

 nervule arising just before the lower end of the cell, sub-median nervure straight, 

 internal nervure short, recurved ; a sexual glandular " scale " patch extending from 

 the base of the first sub-costal nervule to the termination of the discoidal cell, not 

 extending into the cell, but with as large, or rather larger area anterior to the first 

 sub-costal nervule as there is posterior to that vein. Antennae about half as long as 

 the costa of the forewing, with a large, well-formed club. Palpi rather long, porrect, 

 eyes hairy, thorax rather robust, abdomen short, extending to two-thirds the length of 

 the abdominal margin of the hindwing only. Cilia of the hindwing very long and 

 coarse. Type, L. dufhjeonii, de Niceville. The secondary sexual characters of the 

 genus are nearest as far as Indian genera go to those of Bindahara, Moore, the " scale " 

 I^atch on the hindwing being placed in much the same position, though it is not quite 

 so large and reaches quite up to the origin of the upper discocellular nervule, which it 

 does not do in Bindahara, and it has a small tuft of long hairs on the forewing ; but it 

 differs from the five Indian genera, llysudra, Bapala, Bindahara, Virachola and Sin- 

 thusa, all of Moore, which possess the " scale" mark and tuft of hairs, in being entirely 

 devoid of a tail to the hindwing ; the genus being so entirely aberrant that it is very 

 difficult to know where to place it, though its affinities are perhaps more with Tlwcla, 

 Fabricius, than with any other, (de Niceville.) 



LISTERIA DUDGEONir. 

 Plate 705, figs. 4, (J, 4a, (J. 

 Listeria dudgeonii, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 36, pi. 4, fig. 3, (J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black ; the discoidal cell, a small area at 

 the base of the second and a larger area at the base of the first median interspace and 

 thence broadly to the inner margin of the wing, but nearly reaching the anal angle, 

 bright blue. Hindwing with the costa broadly extending into the cell, the outer margin 



