SANDRABATIS. 75 



Genus SANDRABATIS. 



Sandrabatis, Bag. Mori. Phyc. {Rom. Mem. vii) p. 203 (1894). 



Type, S. crassiella, Rag. 



Range. JN\E. and S. India ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, in female with the 2nd joint reaching above 

 vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and acuminate, the maxillary 

 palpi filiform ; in male the 2nd joint of palpi is very long, hollowed 

 out, and containing tbe maxillary palpi, which end in a brush of 

 very long hair, the 3rd joint short; frons with a tuft of long 

 hair ; antennae of male with a thick ridge of scales on base of 

 shaft ; thorax with ridges of large scales along the coxae ; mid 

 tibiae dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair ; hind tibiae 

 fringed on outer side with very long coarse hair. Fore wing of 

 male with a large patch of thick raised scales on basal inner area 

 and tufts of raised scales on the antemedial line below costa ; the 

 costa produced to a rounded lobe at middle, of which the female 

 also has slight traces ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 

 8, 9, 10 stalked and curved. Hind wing of male with the costa 

 arched ; the cell very short ; vein 2 from angle ; 3, 4, 5 stalked ; 

 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4348. Sandrabatis crassiella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 204, pi. xviii, fig. 7. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown and fuscous ; 

 antennae with the ridge of scales, the frontal tuft, and a tuft 

 behind the antennae black. Fore wing with the basal patch of 

 thick scales dark grey; the tufts on antemedial line black; the 

 rest of wing reddish brown, variegated with red and fuscous ; 

 a minutely dentate ochreous antemedial line bent outwards from 

 vein 3 to inner margin, with a series of black specks on its inner 

 edge and short black streaks on the veins beyond it ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous. 



Fig. 50. — Sandrabatis crassiella, <$ . \. 



5 with the fore wing variegated with pale and dark red-brown 

 shades or nearly uniform ; without the dark basal patch ; a black 

 streak in base of cell ; the antemedial line represented by an oblique 

 line from costa and a speck on median nervure. 



Hob. Bhutan ; Nagas ; Manipur ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 24- 

 millim. 



