Subgenus Andraca

Diagnosis. The subgenus includes most known species of middle size with short, relatively broad and strongly falcate fore wings. Both wings are usually of dark reddish-brown with violet-brown coloration depending of species with darker pattern and sometimes with silver shadows near by apex; external field usually very dark. Wing pattern well developed, consists of two more or less parallel medias, the postmedia of the forewings angles back to the costa near by apex; in dark specimens the pattern can be hardly visible. Hind wings mostly angled or dentate, in 2 species broadly rounded. In male genitalia uncus is long, strongly flattened, with basal narrowing and apical cut. Gnathos is presented as two long and narrow hooks, sometimes dentate; valvae flattened, with more or less distinct costal appendix in the middle zone of the valva; often some kind of harpa also develops; aedeagus short, tubular with numerous needle-shaped cornuti grouped in few rows; sternum 8 without characteristic notches or protuberances on caudal edge. Five species are included, two of them are described here as new. Range of the subgenus is limited to the Himalayas (India, Nepal), southern China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Palawan and Java.