268 nocttjid^;. 



B. (Vapara). Palpi with the 3rd joint long ; antennae of male 

 fasciculate. 



1888. Caradrina mus, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 77, pi. 145, fig. 9. 



Greyish fuscous ; palpi dark at sides. Pore wing with very 

 indistinct subbasal line ; a slightly oblique straight antemedial 

 line ; traces of a chestnut reniform stigma ; the postmedial line 

 curved and slightly lunulate ; the irregularly waved submarginal 

 line indistinct. Underside of fore wing with the outer area 

 greyish ; hind wing greyish, with prominent cell-spot and post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. .Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 30 millim. 



1889. Caradrina indistincta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 163 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 159, fig. 7 ; C. Sr S. no. 2859. 



Head and collar chestnut ; thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Pore wing brownish ochreous, with traces of transverse 

 lines ; the orbicular sometimes represented by a dark speck ; 

 reniform with some dark specks round it ; an indistinct submar- 

 ginal line, with some dark diffused marks on each side of it near 

 apex ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous ; 

 underside with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



Bab. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; E. Pegu. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Genus TATHORHYNCHUS, nov. 



Type, T. vinctale, Wlk. 



Range. Aden ; throughout Peninsular India ; Australia. 



Differs from Caradrina in the palpi having a long porrect tuft 

 of hair on the second joint produced to a point ; antennae fascicu- 

 lated ; thorax and abdomen slender ; legs much longer. Pore 

 wing longer and narrower. Hind wing more ample. 



1890. Tathorhynchus vinctale, Wlk. Cat xxxiv, p. 1476 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4160. 



Head and thorax grey ; abdo- 

 men whitish. Pore wing whitish, 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 grey-brown ; the outer area brown- 

 ish ; the orbicular represented by 

 an ochreous speck, the reniform 

 by a white speck ; traces of a sub- 

 marginal series of grey and fuscous 

 Fig. 148. lunules and marginal series of dark 



Tathorhynchus vinctale, J. a. l urm l es . Hind wing pale fuscous, 



darkest towards outer margin. 

 Hab. Aden ; Campbellpur ; Coimbatore ; Australia. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



