LEPCHINA. — PANACRA. 299 



Genus LEPCHINA Oberthur. 

 Oberthur, 1904, p. 76 ; Roths. & Jord., 1907, p. 101. 



Genotype : tridens Oberth. 



Imago. — £. Differs from Acosmeryx in the eyes being small., 

 with lashes ; end-segment of antenna not filiform. ; tibial 

 spines shorter ; first segment of mid-tarsus without elongate 

 spines. Fore wing with termen produced to points at and 

 below apex and excurved at middle. Hind wing with termen 

 sinuate. 



Hob. E. Himalayas. One species. Early stages not 

 known. 



95. Lepchina tridens Oberth. 



Lepchina tridens, Oberthur, 1904. p. 76 (Darjeeling) ; Hampson,. 

 1910, p. 88 ; Seitz, 1929, p. 551. . 



Imago. — <$. Head and thorax violaceous -grey ; abdomen 

 brown ; ventral surface reddish. Fore wing violaceous-grey 

 with velvety-grey lines and patches ; basal area with three 

 hues followed by a postmedian triangular patch touching 

 a discoidai point with its inner edge and extending from 

 costa to termen and inner margin ; apical area with streaks 

 and marks . Hind wing brown with darker median and terminal 

 shades. Underside ferruginous-red ; fore wing with basal 

 half blackish, two greyish costal patches, a sinuate terminal 

 violet-grey patch on both wings with a median whitish mark 

 on fore wing ; two double brown lines on hind wing with a 

 greyish costal patch beyond them. Expanse : 64 mm. 



Hab. E. Himalayas (Sikkim). 9 and early stages unknown. 



Genus PANACRA Walker. (Fig. 76). 



Walker, 1856, p. 154 ; Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 533 ; id., 1907, 

 p. 101. 



Genotype : automedon Walk. 



Imago. — ^$. Small moths, upperside brown mottled and 

 lined with different colours. " Genal process large, triangular, 

 concave behind, reaching nearly tip of pilifer. Palpus rather 

 large, obtusely triangular in dorsal aspect ; second segment 

 nearly as broad as long. Eyelashes vestigial. Head not 

 crested. Antenna setiform in $, slightly incrassate distally 

 in 9, hook short, abrupt, end-segment narrow, elongate- 

 conical, not produced into a long filiform process, clothed 

 with long bristles, the segment similar to that of Theretra 

 and allies. Abdomen ending in a simple tuft ; spines weak. 

 Merum of mid-coxa not angulate ; tibiae simple ; spurs of 

 mid-tibia almost the same in length ; those of hind tibia very 

 unequal, longer terminal one about as long as second tarsal 



