NAGODA. — MAHANTA . 



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Fig. 276. 

 Nagoda nigricans. 



898. Nagoda nigricans, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 542, pi. 211, fig. 10 

 ( 3 ) ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 161, fig. 1 ( ? ). 



3 . Head pale ; thorax and abdomen clothed with red-brown' 

 dark brown, black, and grey scales. Fore wing hyaline ; the base; 

 inner margin, and apex broadly black ' 

 the costa, veins, and outer margin 

 narrowly so. Hind wing hyaline ; the 

 costa and inner margin broadly black, the 

 veins and outer margin narrowly black. 

 $ yellowish white. Fore wing 

 with three bright ferruginous spots 

 in cell, two below it, the outer one 

 large ; two small dark spots below the 

 cell, and two below vein 1 ; a maculate 

 dark band from veins 5 to 2 ; two dark 

 maculate curved bands from the costa 

 before apex to outer margin above outer 

 angle. 



Larva greenish blue, with dorsal and 

 lateral darker stripes and series of lunular markings seen through 

 the thick cuticle. 



Cocoon rounded and greyish white. 



Rob. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 30, $ 38 millim. 



Genus MAHANTA. 

 Mahanta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 78 (1879). 



Type, M. quadrilinea, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim. 



c? . Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae with 

 the branches very short. Hind tibia with a minute terminal 

 pair of spurs. Pore wing elongate, the apex produced, the outer 

 margin excised ; veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked together, 11 not curved. 

 Hind wing subquadrate ; the upper part of cell short ; veins 6 and 

 7 on a long stalk ; 8 almost touching 7 near the end of the cell ; 

 the veinlet in cell running obliquely to the median nervure. 



899. Mahanta quadrilinea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 78, pi. 3, fig. 20 ; 

 C. & 8. no. 1478. 



Fig. 277. — Mahanta quadrilinea, 3 



6 • Head grey ; palpi fulvous ; collar and tegulae fulvous, the 

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