﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1099 



3. Briarda ANTECEDENS. 



Mas. Pallide-cervina ; caput antice fuscum ; thorax fusco hi fas- 

 ciatus ; abdomen pilis lateralibus apicalihus fuscis ; alee 

 anticce apud costam hasalem obscuriores lituris nonnullis 

 transversis angulosis nigris, fascia obscura abbreviata nigro 

 signata et marginata^ macula costali apicali oblonga nigjri- 

 cante, guttis marginalibus pallidis nigro signatis ; posticie 

 margine latissimo fusco, 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Head in front and palpi brown. 

 Thorax with two brown bands. Abdomen with brown hairs on 

 each side towards the tip. Fore wings darker and with some zig- 

 zag transverse black marks along the costa at the base ; a darker 

 band also marked and mostly bordered with black, extending ob- 

 liquely from the costa, where it is dilated to a little beyond the 

 middle of the disk ; an oblong blackish costal apical spot; exterior 

 border with pale ciliae and with a row of pale black-pointed dots. 

 Hind wings with a very broad brown border. Length of the body 

 9 lines ; of the wings 21 lines. 



a. Sumatra. From Sir Stamford Raffles* collection. 



Genus 13. BRANA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis breviuscula. Palpi oblique 

 ascendentes ; articulus 3us linearis, compressus, apice obtusus et 

 subdilatatus, 2i dimidio longior. Antennae simplices, graciles, cor- 

 poris diraidio longiores. Thorax laevis. Abdomen alas posticas 

 paullo superans. Pedes validi, subpilosi ; tibiae posiicae culcaribus 

 longis. Alae elongatae, non latae; anticae apud costam rectae, apice 

 rotundatae, margine exteriore convexo subdeniiculato sat obliquo. 



Body rather stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending; third joint linear, compressed, obtuse and slightly 

 widened at the tip, a little more than half the length of the second. 

 Antennae simple, slender, more than half the length of the body. 

 Thorax smooth. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs stout, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with long spurs. 

 Wings elongate, not broad. Fore wings straight in front, rounded 

 at the tips, convex, rather oblique and slightly denticulated along 

 the exterior border. 



