LAELIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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L. lilacina Moore (= testacea Moore ) (42 b). head, thorax and forewing pale, with a violet hue, Marina. 
the submarginal spots very prominent. Hindwing hued dark. $: head, thorax and forewing pale ochreous. 
Abdomen and hindwing white. Expanse of wings: 34, 9 38 mm. India (Nilgiris). 
L. fasciata Moore (= testacea Moore) (42 b). <J: head, thorax and forewing reddish chestnut-brown, fasciata. 
the forewing speckled with grey scales, in the dorsal and marginal areas hued greyish, the latter area with a 
row of black punctiform spots interrupted between the veins 3 and 4. Abdomen and hindwing lighter. $ with 
a less grey hue on the forewing. Expanse of wings: <$ 36, $ 40 mm. Ceylon, India. -— rubripennis Moore rubripen- 
from Burma has indistinct spots and almost white hindwings. Is reported also from Luzon, flying there in April. nls - 
L. moszkowskii Strand (42 e). forewing in the basal half dark brown with lighter transverse patches, moszkows- 
at the base in front purely black, in the cell dark brown; the terminal half light brown, somewhat ochreous- kii. 
yellowish, with a darker marginal line and a sublimbal row of black transverse spots; fringes brown. Hindwing 
above greyish-black, with a jet-black median punctiform spot. Forewing beneath dark brown with traces 
of a darker discocellular patch and a lighter posterior margin. Body and extremities uni-coloured brown. 
Expanse of wings: 35, length of Avings: 19 mm. Central Sumatra. 
L. prolata Swinh. <J: white. Palpi ochreous. Antennae greyish-brown, head and anterior part of prolata. 
the thorax ochreous. Forewdng with an ochreous costa, both Avings and the abdomen purely white and unmarked. 
Beneath as above. Legs ochreous. Expanse of wings: 30% mm. Moulmein; Kangra in North India; Borneo. 
L. costalis Mats. In both sexes the forervings are grey, in the middle dotted black, at the base of both costalis. 
margins dirty yellow, from the base to the apex a brownish longitudinal line, the apex in the S obtuse, in the 
9 sharp. Hindw'ing whitish, with light yellorv veins and fringes. Beneath lighter. Abdomen whitish, the rest 
of the body yelloAvish. Expanse of wings: 35, 9 44 mm. Formosa. 
L. ochripalpis Strand. <$: foreAving snrokv-black, the base of the areas 2, 3 and 4 jet-black, the dorsal ochripalpis. 
area beneath whitish. Hindwing dirty-white. Abdomen and legs grey. Head and thorax brownish-grey, frons 
lighter than the thorax, palpi oclrreous-yellow, antennae light grey with black pinnae. Expanse of wings: 
30 mm. Formosa (type in the German Entomolog. Museum at Berlin), Dahlern. 
L. buana Moore. fore wing ferruginous reddish-brown. Hindwing smoke-coloured with lighter buana. 
fringes. Antennae brown. Head, thorax and anal brush light ferruginous. Abdomen above broAvn, beneath 
as Avell as the legs light ferruginous. Tarsi yelloAv. Expanse of Avings: 24% mm. Java. 
L. adara Moore (42 d). 9 : brownish-yellow, of a somewhat transparent appearance. Forewing with adara. 
three brown spots below the cell-apex. Fringes of both wings undulate, whereby they appear to be spotted. 
Expanse of Avings: 37 mm. $ with greyish-pink, unmarked forewings and white hindwings. Java. 
L. calamaria limps. (42 d). Both sexes light mouse-coloured brown. Forewing with a curved and calamaria. 
undulate row of black spots from the costal margin near the apex to below the base of vein 2. HindAving of 
a somewhat darker brown Avith lighter stripes. Expanse of wings: 42, 9 54 mm. •—- Laiwa light reddish- 
broAvn and with scanty, long hairs, the 1st segment with long, brown, lateral hair-tufts, the segments 2 to 5 
with red hair-pencils, the anal segment Avith a long hair-tuft turned backward. Food-plant: Calamus huegelianus 
Mart. India, Nilgiris. 
L. acuta Snell. Palpi and forehead ochreous-broAvn. Antennae white with greyish-yellow pinnae, acuta. 
Vertex and thorax silvery white, of which colour the Avings are, too, with a satiny lustre. The costal margin 
of the forewing with a yellow band being as fine as a hair at the base, gradually growing broad towards the 
apex. At the middle of the distal margin the Avings exhibit a grey spot. Abdomen white, at the sides 
posteriorly with a dark ochreous-yellow stripe. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Manila. 
L. venosa Moore. S'- above light ochreous-brown. Veins of the forewings and fringes of both Avings venosa. 
ochreous-Avhite. Frons, head, palpi and abdomen ochreous-yellow, thorax above greyish. Under surface lighter. 
9 lighter. Expanse of wings: S 40, 9 54 mm. S. Andamans, Sikkim, Singapore. In Darjeeling there occurs 
a form Avith an expanse (S) of only 32% mm, being lighter with almost whitish hindwings and with a lighter 
discocellular spot: venosula /. nov. (42b). venosula. 
A nuinber of Laelia- forms occur in the districts bordering on our region and have therefore already 
been dealt with in the Palearctic Part, Vol. II, p. 122. to 123; they are the following: 
L. sinensis Wkr. ( = brevicornis Wkr.) (42 b) from China is a form allied to coenosa Hbn. (Vol. II, sinensis. 
t. 19 i), or presumably onty its representative in the south east of the palearctic region. It lives also near Hong¬ 
kong in the lndo-Australian region. Comp. Vol. II, p. 122. 
L. Candida Leech. LikeAvise probably only a coenosa-iovm passing on to the Indian region in Central Candida. 
China, otherAvise palearctic; vid. Vol. II, p. 122. 
