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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTINJE. 253 SECT. I. (Gyptitia). Antennae of male with a small tooth on inner side of 3rd joint; hind wing with the bases of vein 1 c and median nervure fringed with long hair below. (l)tPYRAUSTA OCHRACEALIS Wlk. xxxiv. 1446. Assam ; Ceylon; Burma; Java ; Celebes. Gyptitia gonialis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent, 1883, p. 138, pi. 8. f. 9 a, b. fHapcdia denticulosa Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 337, pi. 183. f. 8. SECT. II. Antennae of male with a tuft of hair on inner side of basal joint: the base of shaft excised, flattened and contorted. (2)*PYRAUSTA TORRIDALIS Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 443. Assam. SECT. III. Antennae of male normal. A. Fore legs of male with thick tufts of faAvn-coloured hair from base of coxae and white hair from their extremities ; mid legs with large tufts of black aud white spatulate hair from coxae, the tibiae clothed with rough hair. (3)fPYRAUSTA BAMBUCIVORA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 224. India; Ceylon. fNascia arenalis Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 163, pi. 173. f. 29. (4)f PYRAUSTA CITRINALIS Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 302 ( ? N.W. Himalayas. B. Hind tibiae of male with the outer medial spur minute. a. Fore wing of male with large fovea below the cell. (5) PYRAUSTA XANTHOTHYSANA, n. sp. Eeddish brown with a cupreous tinge; palpi beloAv, front of pectus, and mid tibiae and tarsi white, fore tibiae with white bands. Fore wing with oblique sinuous dark antemedial line ; a speck in cell and discocellular lunule; a highly dentate postmedial line slightly bent outwards between veins 7 and 2, then retracted ; a terminal series of black points ; the cilia yellow. Hind Aving with minutely dentate postmedial line; a terminal series of points, becoming a line towards torn us ; cilia yellow. Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 mm. Types in Coll. Bothschild and B.M. b. (Placosaris). Fore wing of male with scale-fans below median nervure on upper and under sides. (6)fPYRAUSTA LEUCULA Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 89 Sangir. |
