. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 328 :. rufous shade along median nervure and thence to termen between veins 5 and 3; sometimes with antemedial darkjioint in submedian fold and postmedial series of dark points on the veins with points before them in discal and submedian folds; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous white. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with (I Fig. 144.âSesamia inferens, (^. \. Huh. Japan, Yokohama {Prijer), 1 J, 2 $ type iHuocenx, Tsu- shima {^eehohm), 1 2 ; Cenir. China, Ningpo (Lee
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 328 :. rufous shade along median nervure and thence to termen between veins 5 and 3; sometimes with antemedial darkjioint in submedian fold and postmedial series of dark points on the veins with points before them in discal and submedian folds; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous white. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with (I Fig. 144.âSesamia inferens, (^. \. Huh. Japan, Yokohama {Prijer), 1 J, 2 $ type iHuocenx, Tsu- shima {^eehohm), 1 2 ; Cenir. China, Ningpo (Leech), 1 J , Ichaug (3Irs. Pratt), 1 $ ; W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 $ ; Formosa (Hobson), ] J, 2 $ , types tranquilaris and gracilis; Bengal, Cawnpur (5e«o)!.), 2 S-, Fatehimr (5g«on), 1 §; Assam, 1 5; Madras, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 5 ; Ceylon (Templeton, Green), 3 $ type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 $ ; Burma, Moulmein (Glerl), 1 2 type proscripta, llangoon (Scott), 1 (^, 2 $, Irrawaddy R., Sheemagar ^Carpetiter), 1 2 5 Andamans, 1 $ ; Penang (l^loiver), 1 5 ; Singapore (Bidhy), 1 ^ ,1 2 'â > Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 c?, Kuching (>S/ie?/o/-cZ), 1 cj' ; Philippines, Taytai (Betioa),3 $ ; Celebes. £".1'^^. 24â34 millim. Larva. Indian Museum Notes, v. p, 178, pi. xii. f. 9. Cylindrical, tapering rather suddenly to head and less so to anal somite; smooth, shining, flesh-coloured, with a few colourless bristles ; the segments broadly and shallowly pitted ; head ferruginous, the mouth-parts black ; spiracles black; dorsal vessel dark. Food-plant: Sugar-cane, in the stem of which it bores. Sect. III. Antenna of male serrate and A. Hind wing with -veins 3, 4 stalked in both sexes. 4760. Sesamia sabulosa, u. sp. Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with brown. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with reddish brown; traces of antemedial dark points on costa, median nervure, and vein. 1 ; a tlight brownish shade in lower angle of cell an
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