. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. sicciA. 391 Sect. II. {JEmene^. Antennre of male with very shoi't branches ending in a bristle. A. Fore wing with dentate medial line ( B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots yutiulosana, 832. Siccia taprobanis. Mmene twprohanis. Wlk. ii. 542 (1854); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. f. 2 ; Hmpsu. Molhs Ind. ii. p. 92; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3l) Panassa cingalesa, W'Jk, xxxii. (iOT (18G6). granimophora, Feld. Reis. A^ov. pi. lOG. f. 24 (1874). Mmene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. i)4, pi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. sicciA. 391 Sect. II. {JEmene^. Antennre of male with very shoi't branches ending in a bristle. A. Fore wing with dentate medial line ( B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots yutiulosana, 832. Siccia taprobanis. Mmene twprohanis. Wlk. ii. 542 (1854); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. f. 2 ; Hmpsu. Molhs Ind. ii. p. 92; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3l) Panassa cingalesa, W'Jk, xxxii. (iOT (18G6). granimophora, Feld. Reis. A^ov. pi. lOG. f. 24 (1874). Mmene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. i)4, pi. '6. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 367. Pale grey ; paljoi black ; mesothorax, ends of patagia, tibiae and tarsi with black spots ; abdomen tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft grey. Fore wing with black spot at base of costa, with line from it to submedian fold, angled on median nervure ; a triangular spot on costa before middle with a line from just below it to vein 1, strongly incurved below the cell; a spot at middle of cell; a medial line angled outwards on sub- costal and median nervures and inwards below the cell; a discoidal spot; the post- medial line minutely den- tate, augied at veins 6 and 4, bent inwards below vein 2 and with some fuscous Tig. mi.~Siccia taprohanis, ^. \. suffusion between it and (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) tlie medial line on inner urea; a dentate line be- yond it from costa to vein 2, more strongly angled at vein 6 and often indistinct; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards base ; an indistinct discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line more prominent on underside; cilia whitish. The form from Dharmsala and JJombay is rather whiter than the Ceylon form. Hah. Himalayas, Dharmsala {Hocling), 1 $ ; Sikhim ; Assam, Khjisis, Nagas; Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 (S, 1 $ ; Ceiloit {Templeton), 1 c?, 2 $, type and type eiwjalesa, Dickoya {Grem), 1 J , 2 $ ; Malacca. Exp., c? 2-i, 5 30 millim. Type f sinuata in Coll. JStaudinger, 833. Sic
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