TOPADESA. 137 



Genus TOPADESA. 

 Topadesa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 280 (1882). 



Type, T. sanguinea, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint angled, the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 very long. Antennae minutely ciliated. First segment of abdo- 

 men with very large paired corneous belt-like processes on the 

 underside without tufts of scales. Fore wing with the costa 

 arched near the base ; the apex acute, the outer margin excurved 

 at veins 2, 3, 4 ; veins 3, 4, 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wiDg with the apex acute, 

 outer margin excurved at centre ; veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 from 

 above angle of cell ; 6 and 7 on a short stalk ; 8 from centre of 

 cell. 



1517. Topadesa sanguinea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 280; C. $ S. 

 no. 4755. 



d . Palpi red and yellow below, purplish brown above ; abdo- 

 men fuscous. Pore wing fiery red, suffused with brown, especially 



Fig. 92. — Topadesa sanguinea, $ . \. 



on costal area ; a yellow basal streak on the costa ; a white spot 

 at end of cell on a vermilion patch ; costa at apex, outer margin, 

 and cilia bright canary-yellow. Hind wing ochreous. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 28 millim. 



Subfamily NOLIN^E. 



The species of this group of Arctiidce are of small or moderate 

 size, with buttons or ridges of raised scales on the fore wing ; they 

 live chiefly on the trunks of trees, and on the lichens growing 

 there the larvae feed *. 



Larvae with eight pairs of legs and sparsely covered with hair. 



* The Nolina approach closely the Noctuid subfamily Sarrothripince, 

 from some of the forms of which they are hardly structurally separable. 



