. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. NISHADA. Ill Sect. I. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident. 206. Nishada niveola, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) 2 . Pure white, uniform throughout. Hah. New Guinea, Kapaur {DoJuriy), 1 $ type. Krp. 22 millim. Sect. II. Hind wing cf female vyith vein 2 from before angle of cell. A, (Pctalopleura). Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 co- incident. a. Wings black-brown, with orange patches syvtomoides. h. Wings uniform ochreous impervia. 207. Nishada syntomoides. Lithosia syntonoides, Wlk. Journ.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. NISHADA. Ill Sect. I. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident. 206. Nishada niveola, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) 2 . Pure white, uniform throughout. Hah. New Guinea, Kapaur {DoJuriy), 1 $ type. Krp. 22 millim. Sect. II. Hind wing cf female vyith vein 2 from before angle of cell. A, (Pctalopleura). Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 co- incident. a. Wings black-brown, with orange patches syvtomoides. h. Wings uniform ochreous impervia. 207. Nishada syntomoides. Lithosia syntonoides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. \i. p. lOG (1862) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 300. Eutane brevis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 126, pi. iii. f. 13 (1892). S. Black-brown; frons, vertex of head, edges of teguloe and patagia, and spots on thorax orange ; legs orange ancl brown ; abdomen with the anal tuft mixed with orange, the ventral surface with orange bands. Fore wing with orange spot at base of costa; a streak below aiitemedial part of costa ; a streak below median ncrvure from near base to near termcu narrowing at middle; an elliptical spot in end of cell; slight streaks above veins 7 and 10 and a more pro- minent one above 9 ; a l)ifid spot between veins 4 and 7 : a streak on middle of inner margin. Hind wing with the basal half orange ; the inner and terminal areas black-brown. 5 . Fore wing with subterminal spot above vein 2 and sometimes a point aboxe 3. Hind wing with orange fascial on costal area and below cell, widely separated at extremity. Bab. Sumatra ; Borneo, Sandakan {Fryer), 1 S , Sarawak {Wal- lace), Is type of both names in Mus. Oxon., Pulo Laut {Doherty), 1 2 . Exp. 26 Fig. 52.—Nit<hada synfomoidc», S- 208. Nishada impervia. (Plate XXL fig. 4.) Lithosia impervia, Wlk. xsxi. 230 (18(54); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. .320. Tetalophura phceocephala, Mevr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 341. $. Head and thorax orange-yellow; antenna; blackish ; abdcmicn
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