368 pyralid^e. 



short hair. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 from above angle of 

 cell and slightly distorted. Hind wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, curved downwards for a short distance, with a 

 small streak of hyaline membrane above it ; veins 4, 5 curved 

 apart near origin, then approaching each other again, 7 curbed 

 downwards near origin. 



5069. Lepyrodes neptis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 264, fig. F ; C. $ S. 

 no. 4329. 



Pale yellowish brown or fuscous brown ; palpi white below ; 

 abdomen banded with white. Fore wing with two black-edged 

 white subbasal bands not reaching the costa ; a spot in cell ; a 

 wedge-shaped mark on inner margin ; a discocellular white band 

 forming with a patch below the cell a Y-shaped band, with its 

 outer arm shortest ; two large black-edged white crescentic post- 

 medial marks ; a line from costa to vein 5, with another below it 



Fig. 196. — Lepyrodes nepti 



nearer the margin extending down to vein 2. Hind wing with the 

 basal area white, its outer edge angled at vein 5 and with a black- 

 edged yellow-brown discocellular mark ; the outer area yellow- 

 brown, with a black-edged wedge-shaped submarginal mark from 

 below costa to vein 2, and another further from the margin and 

 with its outer edge indented from vein 5 to anal angle. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; the Malayan sub- 

 region ; Australia. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. II. (Lepyrodes). Male with the fore tibiae and 1st joint of 

 tarsus fringed with long hair, but the tibia without the thick 

 tufts ; neuration normal ; no hyaline streak between veins 3 

 and 4 of hind wing. 



5070. Lepyrodes geometralis, Guen. Belt, fy Pyr. p. 278, pi. 8, fig. 6 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4370. 



Yellow, striated with black. Fore wing with two black-edged 

 antemedial white spots below the cell ; a spot at middle of cell 

 and another at end of it ; a larger spot below origin of vein 2 ; a 

 small spot above vein 2 and large spot above vein 5 ; a submarginal 

 line from below costa to vein 5, with another below it nearer the 

 margin and extending down to vein 3 ; a large reniform spot near 

 outer angle. Hind wing with subbasal white band; an antemedial 

 spot between cell and inner margin ; a large spot beyond the cell ; 



