240 



PYEALID.iE. 



anternedial line, angled on median nervure ; a discocellular lnnule ; 



the postmedial line excurved 

 from costa to vein 2. Hind 

 wing with the costal and inner 

 ai'eas pale ; a curved dark 

 postmedial line, obsolete on 

 inner area. Both wings with 

 marginal dark line and the 

 cilia fuscous except towards 

 anal angle of hind wing. 

 Hab. Sikhim ; Borneo. Exjp. 20 millim. 



Fig. 144. — Hydrorybinapolusalis, <$ . 



4749. Hydrorybina bicolor, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 207 ; C.&S. no. 4350. 

 Pionea rubralis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 97. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing crimson with a purple tinge ; 

 cilia purple, ochreous at tips ; abdomen and hind wing pale fuscous 

 brown. 



cf browner, fore wing irrorated with black ; a black speck at 

 lower angle of cell ; a postmedial line highly excurved below costa, 

 then oblique. 



Hab. Khasis; Calcutta; Ceylon. Exp., $ 14, 5 16-22 millim. 



Genus MABRA. 

 Mabra, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 280 (1885). 



Type, M. eryxalis, "Wlk. 



Range. India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair; maxillary palpi filiform; frons rounded; tibiae with the 

 spurs long and nearly equal. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anasto- 

 mosing strongly with 8. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with long cilia. 



4750. Mabra eryxalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 371 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 179, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 4254. 



Pore wing with indistinct sinuous anternedial 

 orange line ; the whole discal 

 area suffused with fuscous, ex- 

 tending down to inner margin ; 

 a black discocellular lunule; a 

 sinuous dark postmedial line out- 

 wardly oblique to A r ein 3, then 

 recurved to the angle of cell and 

 excurved again ; an indistinct 

 waved orange submarginal line. 



Hind wing suffused with fuscous; the marginal area orange; a 



waved orange submarginal line. 



Hab. Punjab; Ceylon; Nagas; Eangoon. Exp. 16 millim. 



Bright orange. 



Fig. 145. — Mabra eryxalis, $. 



