374 XOCTUIDM. 



Genus LABANDA. 



Labanda, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 284 (1859). 

 Banana, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 603 (1865). 

 Lazanda, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 604. 



Type, L. herbealis, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon. 



Paipi smoothly scaled, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd long and naked ; antennas very long and slender, minutely 

 ciliated in male. Thorax smoothly scaled; abdomen slender, 

 with dorsal tufts on the first two segments, and usually extending 

 far beyond the hind wing ; tibiae almost naked. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded ; the outer margin evenly curved. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from lower augle of cell. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from cell ; male 

 with the retinaculum not bar-shaped. 



2209. Labanda fasciata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 605; Hmpsn. 111. Set. 

 ix, pi. 167, fig. 14 ; C. $ S. no. 1651. 



Dioruea muscosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 898 ; C. fy S. no. 3016. 



Head and thorax brownish green, irrorated with black scales ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing green, irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal, double ante- and postmedial waved dark lines ; a diffused 

 fuscous antemedial or medial band usually present and traces of 

 the reniform ; an irregularly dentate diffused submarginal line ; 



Fig. 206. — Labanda fasciata, $ . \. 



cilia dark intersected with green. Hind wing dark fuscous brown. 

 "Underside with a pale mark on costa of fore wing before apex. 



Some specimens have whitish suffusion on the medial area of 

 fore wing. 



Bab. Mgiris : Ceylon ; Moulmein. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2210. Labanda griseinigra, n. sp. 



Differs from fasciata in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 variegated with grey, black, and fuscous or brown, but without any 

 green tinge ; the postmedial line excurved beyond the cell. 



Some specimens are brownish, others fuscous and grey, whilst 

 one has the basal half of fore wing grey with a black patch at base 

 of costa and broad streak below median nervure from base to above 

 outer angle ; the medial area suffused with black. 



Hah. Sikhim (Ehves, Knyvett) ; Ganjam (Minchin). Exp. 28 

 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



