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BASILICA; MUD ARIA; LOPHOCALAMA. By W. Warren 
chryso- 
sticta. 
cornifrons. 
conspicua. 
with whitish, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 6 and slightly incurved below vein 3; subterminal line 
indistinct, pale, preceded by brown clouding, and a triangular brown shade on costa; termen with small 
black dots; fringe rufous, the tips and a middle line brown; a diffuse and indistinct red-brown median 
shade, bent in middle, touching inner line on inner margin; stigmata shown by faint ochreous marks: hindwing 
orange yellow, the basal area below cell fuscous-tinged; outer line sinuous, fuscous, with a broad fuscous band 
beyond it, leaving the termen and fringe yellow. From Sikkim, N. India only. 
65. Genus: ISiisflica Hmps. 
Tongue aborted, minute; frons with large round corneous prominence with the edges raised and a 
wedge-shaped process in middle and corneous plate below; palpi porrect, slender, the second segment slightly 
rough scaled; antennae of <$ ?, of $ lamellate, ciliated; thorax and dorsum without crests; forewing un¬ 
usually broad, the costa arched, the apex blunt, the termen curved, more strongly below middle; the tor- 
nus with a tooth of scales; neuration normal. Type B. chrysosticta Hmps. 
B. chrysosticta Hmps. Forewing pale brown pink tinged with whitish and dusted with a few black 
scales; a large pale yellow patch on median area from cell to inner margin, irrorated with brick red 
scales; inner line double, waved, above middle black, below middle brick red; median line black from costa 
to vein 2, oblique outwards to vein 6, well beyond the cell, excurved to vein 4, and bent inwards to near 
origin of vein 2, then waved and brick red in colour; outer line from costa near apex, double, dentate, brick red 
on the yellow areas, fuscous on the brown, slightly excurved below costa, oblique to vein 3, bent inwards 
to near origin of vein 2 and again excurved; subterminal line brown, starting from just beyond outer line, ob¬ 
liquely curved to vein 3, then incurved and diffuse; orbicular stigma obsolete; reniform represented by an in¬ 
distinct small lunule with some black scales on its edges; an oblique diffuse patch of pale yellow scales 
irrorated with red from apex, with brown streaks on the veins; hindwing grey suffused with pale red- 
brown. Described from a single $ from Bombay. 
66. Genus: Mndaria Moore. 
Tongue fully developed; frons with a large trilobate corneous process from middle, with a corneous 
plate below excised in front; palpi porrect, the second segment slightly rough haired in front, the third smooth 
and longer than usual; antennae of lamellate; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; tibiae 
fringed with long hair; neuration normal. Type M. cornifrons Moore. Only the one species; the larva feeds in the 
pods of Bombax, malabaricum, the silk-cotton, and pupates in the ground in cocoons of earth spun together 
with silk. 
M. cornifrons Moore. Forewing ochreous white, thickly dusted with pale brown and a few black scales; 
inner line black, double, oblique and irregularly waved from costa to submedian fold, then sharply toothed 
inwards on vein 1, and outwards below it; outer line black, double, lunulate dentate, outwardly angled on vein 
5 and oblique below 3; subterminal line confused, dentate, preceded by slight dentate marks at middle, out¬ 
wardly toothed at 7 and oblique below middle; a row of terminal black dots; fringe white at base with 
brownish tips; orbicular and reniform stigmata confluent into a large patch of ground colour, defined, except 
above, by black, and extending downwards below cell; hindwing pure white, semihyaline, the termen with a 
fine brownish line and some black dots towards apex; in the ab. conspicua ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the confluent 
stigmatal patch of forewing is strongly defined by diffuse black scales. Calcutta, Bengal. 
67. Genus: lioplioealama Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment fringed with long 
hair on upper side, the third short, porrect; antennae lamellate, with short ciliations; thorax rough haired; 
the prothorax with erect triangular crest; the metathorax with a double, low, ridge-like crest; forewing elon¬ 
gate; the apex produced, subacute; the termen evenly curved; neuration normal. Type L. neuritis Hmps. 
In this and the succeeding genera the markings are horizontal and the transverse streaks, if present, 
usually confined to vein dots; the larvae feeding in the stems and leaves of water-plants, like those of the 
genus Leucania and its allies. 
