370 PYKALIDJE. 



black area less extensive ; the postraedial line reduced to a black 

 mark on inner side of the postmedial patch, which has its upper 

 part brighter red, its lower part whitish and fulvous ; the line 

 beyond it less excurved ; the apical area white ; a brown spot on 

 margin below vein 2. 



Hob. Bombay. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus LEUCINODES. 



Leucinodes, Guen. Belt. § Pyr. p. 221 (1854). 



Type, L. elegantalis, Guen., from S. America. 



Mange. Neotropical region ; S. Africa ; India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Malayan and Australasian subregions. 



Differs from Analyta in the 2nd and 3rd joints of palpi being 

 considerably longer, the 1st joint with a tuft of forwardly project- 

 ing hair ; antennae slightly annulated and not thickened. Fore 

 wing with vein 7 not approximated to 8 ; hind wing with the 

 discocellulars highly angled ; both wings with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell, 4, 5 well separated at origin, and the outer margin 

 somewhat excurved or angulated at middle. 



5073. Leucinodes orbonalis, Guen. Belt. # Pyr. p. 223 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 179, fig. 9 ; Cotes, Indian Museum Notes, iii, p. 100 

 (larva) ; C.&S. no. 4290. 

 Pycnarmon discerptalis, C. fy 8. no. 4315 {nee Wlh.). 



White ; the head and thorax variegated with black and brown. 

 Fore wing with the base fulvous, ferruginous, and black, followed 



by an incomplete sinuous black 

 line ; large fulvous orbicular and 

 reniform patches with some black 

 on their edges and almost extend- 

 ing to costa ; a black-edged 

 ferruginous triangular patch from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin 

 with a sinnous line beyond it ; a 



Leucinodes frbonalis, j. i. P^ fulvous sinuous postmedial 



band not reaching costa ; a sinuous 

 black submarginal line obsolescent towards outer angle and with a 

 ferruginous and fuscous band beyond it, from below costa to vein 

 2 ; some black specks on margin. Hind wing opalescent, with 

 black speck at upper angle of cell and spot at lower angle ; an 

 ill-defined postmedial black line nearly straight from costa to vein 

 3, then recurved and sinuous ; some ill-defined pale fulvous sub- 

 marginal patches and some black specks on margin. 



Larva bores in the fruit of the ' Brinjal,' Solatium melongela. 



Hab. S. Africa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans ; Java ; Duke of York Island. Exp. 24 millim. 



