CAMADENA. — HERDONIA. 367 



809. Camadena vesper fcilionis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 214 ; C. Sf S. 



no. 4388. 

 Caustoloma acutipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk, p. 230 ; C. fy 8. no. 3144. 



S • Yellow ; the vertex of head, thorax, and abdomen suffused 

 with red-brown. Wings yellow, slightly striated with red-brown. 

 Fore wing with a red-brown band just beyond the middle, broad 

 toward costa, narrow towards inner margin, with a silvery speck 



Fig. 247. — Camadena vespertilionis, J. \. 



on it at end of cell and extending along the costa to apex ; an 

 indistinct series of submarginal double specks. Hind wing with 

 a dark spot at end of cell, with a silvery speck on it, and an indis- 

 tinct submarginal series of specks. 



$ . Suffused with brown; the wings much more thickly striated 

 with brown ; the band on fore wing nearly obsolete ; the silvery 

 spots and submarginal double specks much more prominent on 

 both wings. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp., 6 32, $ 40 millim. 



Genus HERDONIA. 

 Herdonia, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 963 (1859). 



Type, H. osacesalis, Wlk. 



Range. China ; Sylhet ; Burma. 



Palpi short and porrect. Antennae almost simple in both sexes. 

 Fore wing with the costa excised at middle ; vein 6 from below 

 angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 from the angle ; 10 absent. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell ; a forked 

 veinlet in the cell. 



810. Herdonia osacesalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 964; Feld. Reis. Nov., 

 Lep. pi. 134, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 4427. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing silvery 

 red-brown, almost entirely covered with broad conjoined darker 

 strigae, some of which form a highly irregular bright chestnut sub- 

 marginal band; apex suffused with fuscous and irrorated with 

 silvery scales. Hind wing opalescent white, with basal and 

 medial red-brown bands, broadest at inner margin and having 



