326 GEOMETRID A. 
Genus RAMBARA. 
‘Rambara, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 458 (1887). 
Type, £. saponaria, Guen. 
Range. Madagascar; Formosa; throughout India, Ceylon, and 
Burma; Andamans; Borneo; Java; and Australian region. 
Palpi porrect and hairy ; antenne long and slender, minutely 
serrate in male, ciliated in female; legs very long and slender; 
fore tibie short; hind tibiew with fold and tuft, and without spurs 
in male. Fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 
7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle; 10 absent; 11 becoming 
coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of 
cell; 5 from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked. 
3581. Rambara saponaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 16; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 
iu, pl. 203, fig. 8; C. & S, no. 3964. 
Zanclopteryx fragilis, Butl. P. Z, S. 1880, p. 687. 
White ; abdomen with black band or spots on 2nd segment ; 
wings semihyaline. Fore wing with an antemedial series of three 
fulvous spots, nearly jomed on inner margin by a curved post- 
medial series ; a black spot at end of cell. Hind wing with fulvous 
spot at end of cell and curved postmedial series, excurved between 
veins 2 and 5; both wings with marginal series of black specks. 
Hab. Formosa; Travancore; Ceylon; Borneo. Hp. 20 millim. 
3582. Rambara infelix, Swink. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 858, pl. 56, fig. 13; 
C. & S. no. 8968. 
@. Differs from saponaria in having no black mark on 
abdomen ; fore wing with no black spot at end of cell; hardly 
a trace of fulvous spots ; a few fulvous specks on costa and some 
fulvous scales on outer and inner areas of each wing. 
Hab. Poona; Khanddla. Hap. 20 millim. 
/ 3583. Rambara ochreicostalis, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 150, pl. 169, 
Ligaen 
Differs from saponaria in having no black mark on the abdomen. 
Fore wing with a broad, pale, 
fulvous costal fascia; the 
antemedial series of specks 
curved and well separated 
from the oblique postmedial 
series, which consists of 
distinct lunules; a_ sub- 
marginal series of fulvous 
spots, not extending to apex. 
Hind wing with a submarginal series of fulvous spots. _ 
Hab. Ceylon; Burma; Andamans; Malacca; Nias. Hp. 
30 millim. 
Fig. 160.—Rambara ochreicostalis, 3. }.- 
