. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHItYSOSCOTA.—NISHADA. 4G5 204 c. Chvysoscota brunnea. (Plate XXV. fig. 32.) Phmosia brunnea, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 497 (1905). Head and thorax brown; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated and suffused with reddish brown, a somewhat paler patch in end of cell with dark streak before it, and spots at middle and beyond it; a dark spot on costa before apex and a series of ill-defined dark subterminal marks. Hind wing fuscous brown. Hob. Sumatra, 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak, 1 6 type
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHItYSOSCOTA.—NISHADA. 4G5 204 c. Chvysoscota brunnea. (Plate XXV. fig. 32.) Phmosia brunnea, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 497 (1905). Head and thorax brown; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated and suffused with reddish brown, a somewhat paler patch in end of cell with dark streak before it, and spots at middle and beyond it; a dark spot on costa before apex and a series of ill-defined dark subterminal marks. Hind wing fuscous brown. Hob. Sumatra, 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak, 1 6 type ; Queens- land, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 <$, 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 208. Nishada impervia, insert (syns.):— Nishada mdanopa, , Nov. Zool. xi. p. 417, pi. v. f. 19 (1904). Ilemn unicolora, , Nov. Zool, xi. p. 420, pi. v. f. 31 (1904). Ilema testaceojiava, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 221 (1912), § (nee <$). Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), types t melanopa and uni- eolora in Coli. Bethune-Baker. 208 a. Nishada melanistis. (Plate XXV. fig. 33.) Nishada melanistis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 80 (1902). 6. Head orange; tegulre orange with black spots; thorax black, the base of patagia orange ; pectus and legs orange; abdomen orange, the dorsal surface black except at extremity. Pore wing black-brown, the base and costal area yellowish white ; cilia yellowish white on apical half. Hind wing orange, the termen suffused with fuscous on apical half. Underside of fore wing with the costal area -and apical half of '.ilia more orange ; hind wing wholly orange. Hub. Borneo, Kina , 2 6 type. Exp. 28 millim. *20S b. Nishaia aurantiaca. Nishada aurantiaca, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 224 (1913). Hind wing of male with comh of long downturned thick hairlike scales on vein 8 above end of cell on underside, the submedian fold. Fig. 87.—Nixltaila a urn iilinen. rT . }. with fringe of long spatulate scales from base to near termen; abdomen with lateral tufts of very l
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