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MECODINA.—ZETHES. vi 
a marginal crenulate line. Hind wing with pale patch beyond 
end of cell; an ill-defined antemedial narrow black line; a waved 
medial line and indistinct sinuous submarginal line. 
Hab, Nagas, 3000 feet (Doherty). Hp. 46 millim. Type in 
coll. Elwes. 
Genus PSIMADA. 
Psimada, Wik. Cat. xv, p. 1827 (1858). 
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Type, P. quadripennis, Wlk. 
Range. China; Malabar ; Ceylon; Burma; Andamans. 
Ditters from Mecodina in the 3rd joint of the palpi being 
shorter ; the antenne of male ciliated, the medial portion thickened 
by a ridge of scales on upper surface; hind wing with the outer 
margin angled at middle. 
2719. Psimada quadripennis, Wik. Cat. xv, p. 1828; Moore, Lep. 
~“Ceyl. iii, pl. 170, fig. 2; C. & 8. no. 2629, 
Head and collar red-brown; thorax paler; abdomen fuscous. 
Fore wing with the basal half 
pale red-brown, the outer dark 
with a purplish tinge; traces 
é of antemedial, medial, and post- 
OF medial waved lines and _ sub- 
y marginal series of white specks ; 
a large triangular dark red-brown 
patch on costa at apex. Hind 
ie ®. wing dark, with a purplish tinge 
Psimada quadripennis, g. 2. on basal half; the outer half 
redder, with a large semicircular 
pale patch on outer margin towards anal angle. Underside with 
the apex of fore wing whitish and with a submarginal oblique line. 
Hab. N. China; Canara; Ceylon; Burma; Andamans. Lap. 
42 millim. 
Genus ZETHES, z#.."' * 
Zethes, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 29. 
Cultripalpa, Guen. Noct. iti, p. 332 (1852). 
Marmorinia, G'wen. Noct. 111, p. 370. 
Saraca, Wilk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1190 (1865). 
Tamba, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 94 (1869). 
Obdora, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 95. 
Type, Z. insularis, Ramb., from Europe. 
Range. Mediterranean subregion ; Japan; China; and through- 
out the Oriental region. 
Palpi thickly scaled, the 2nd joint obliquely upturned to above 
vertex of head, the 3rd usually long. Thorax and abdomen usually 
smoothly scaled; tibie moderately hairy. Fore wing with the 
apex acute; the outer margin more or less angled at middle, 
Hind wing with vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars. 
