PYDNA. 



139 



Type, P. testacea, "Wlk. 



Rmge. Japan ; China ; and throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma. 



Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head, fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd joint short. Fore wing produced, longer and 

 narrower in female than male ; vein 6 from the angle of cell ; 9 or 

 both 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. Hind 

 wing with veins 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 running close along 7 before 

 the end of cell. 



Sect. I. (Pydna). Fore wing with the areole short ; 



vein 10 given off after it. 



A. Female with antennae slightly pectinated. 



230. Pydna testacea, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1754; C. $ S. no. 1184. 



Menapia kamadena, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 812 ; C. $ S. no. 1512. 



S • Pale ochreous ; palpi black, fringed with white. Pore wing 

 suffused with f nscous ; a black speck at base and another at end of 

 cell ; an indistinct subbasal waved and curved line ; a highly waved 

 and curved antemedial line ; two very oblique lunulate indistinct 

 lines from the apex to centre of inner margin ; a waved subinar- 

 ginal indistinct line ; a black speck at end of cell. Abdomen and 

 hind wing reddish ochreous. 



2 with the fore wing longer, the abdomen and hind wing 

 white, ochreous, or reddish fuscous. 



Another form is paler, the fore wing slightly irrorated with 

 black scales ; the markings almost obsolete ; female with a dark 

 blotch in the cell and another beyond it. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp., tf 60-66, $ 62-96 millim. 



*231. Pydna decurrens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 66 ; C. f S. no. 1144. 



$ . Differs from the pale ochreous form of testacea in having a 

 sharply angulated antemedial band ; a curved postmedial band 

 sending two streaks to a submarginal maculate line ; an oblique 

 streak from apex. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 53 millim. 



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Fig. 84. — Pi/dna longivitta, J • 



232. Pydna longivitta, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1754; C. $ S. no. 1186. 



Menapia xanthophila, Wlk. Cat. xxxii. p. 462 ; Butl. III. Met. vi, 

 pi. 104, fig. 1 ; C$8. no. 1187. 



