. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIMTRA.—EOGKN'A. 179 tinf!;cd with ochreous; the underside with the costal area sufi'used with pale rufous. Hah. CBTLOisr (Templeton), 4 J type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 2- Exp. 30-38 millim. 3781. Simyra conspersa. (Plal-e CXXVII, fig-. 16.) Simi/ra conS2>ersa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; Hrupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p.' 286. Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; ahdomeu white. Fore wing ochreous white thickly and evenly irrorated with reddish brown, usually with two slight brown striae on discocellulara an


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIMTRA.—EOGKN'A. 179 tinf!;cd with ochreous; the underside with the costal area sufi'used with pale rufous. Hah. CBTLOisr (Templeton), 4 J type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 2- Exp. 30-38 millim. 3781. Simyra conspersa. (Plal-e CXXVII, fig-. 16.) Simi/ra conS2>ersa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; Hrupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p.' 286. Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; ahdomeu white. Fore wing ochreous white thickly and evenly irrorated with reddish brown, usually with two slight brown striae on discocellulara and one beyond upper angle of cell. Hind wing white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous. Hub. Pdnjab, Manpuri, 1 $ type ; fSiKHiM, 1 S ; Bbi^gal, Cal- cutta, 1 c?, 2 § ; Centr, Provinces, Paipur {Betham), 1 5 . 30-42 millim. Genus EOGENA. Eogena, Guen. Noct. i. p. 340 (1852) Tvpe. coiUaminei. Proboscis absent; palpi |iorrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint frmiied witli long liair below; frons smooth, with tiifr, of hair; eves large, round; antennas of male laminate; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibite fringed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; V) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 frou) angle of cell; 5 obsolescent fi-om middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 irom upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the ct)ll near base only. 3782. Eogena contaminei. I\ociua. contaminei, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 77, pi. 5. f. 6 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. Cosmia bomhtjcina. Men. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. vi. p. 285, pi. 6. f. 7(1848). Isoctua eogeiie, Frr. Neue Schmett. vi. p. 53, pi. 514 (1852). Head and thorax bright pink ; antennae fulvous, white at base ;. Fig. 29.—Eogena contaminei, (^. \. pe


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