492 noctuidjE. 



wing variegated with rufous and purplish ; some white on the 

 postmedial line ; the outer margin suffused with white except at 

 apex ; hind wing variegated with reds and purples ; a brown- 

 speckled yellow patch at apex. 



Larva green, with dark dorsal striae ; the hinder part of somites 

 4-11 with dark specks and a sublateral series of similar specks; 

 the legs and two dorsal prominences on 11th segment dark. 

 Food-plants, Pisonia and Canihium. 



Hab. S. Africa ; Madagascar ; Japan ; China ; throughout India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans. Exp. 48-64 millim. 



Genus BRANA. 

 Brana, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1099 (1857). 



Type B. calopasa, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon ; New Guinea. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint not reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 naked and porrect ; antennae almost simple ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled ; tibiae without spines and moderately hairy. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat rounded. Hind wing rather narrow; 

 vein 5 from above lower angle of cell. 



2479. Brana calopasa, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1100 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 148, fig. 6 ; C. # S. no. 2385. 



Head black and white : thorax grey, the scales tipped with 

 white ; collar with some black at base and behind it ; abdomen 



Fig. 278. — Brana calopasa, $ . \. 



black, with an orange dorsal spot at base and the extremity 

 orange ; pectus orange ; legs black and white. Fore wing with 

 the basal half grey, the scales tipped with white ; two black spots 

 on a white patch at base of costa ; an antemedial series of three 

 white or yellow-ringed black spots ; five medial spots, one being 

 displaced outwards below the white-edged black ren if orm ; a post- 

 medial maculate band with some white beyond it ; the outer area 

 bluish black ; the veins white ; an indistinct submarginal white 

 line. Hind wing blue-black ; the apex and cilia white. 

 Hab. Ceylon ; New Guinea. Exp. 58-60 millim. 



