. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 337 terminal line represented by an oblique series of indistinct psile marks, slightly defined on each side by blackish from costa to discLil fold, met by an oblique black streak from apex and slightly excurved at middle ; a fine waved black terminal line with black points in the interspaces. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia. Fig. 151.—Xijlostola indisimcta, ^. \. paler with a brownish line near base ; the underside pale greyish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with dark brown, a dark discoidal lunule, di
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 337 terminal line represented by an oblique series of indistinct psile marks, slightly defined on each side by blackish from costa to discLil fold, met by an oblique black streak from apex and slightly excurved at middle ; a fine waved black terminal line with black points in the interspaces. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia. Fig. 151.—Xijlostola indisimcta, ^. \. paler with a brownish line near base ; the underside pale greyish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with dark brown, a dark discoidal lunule, diffused curved postmedial line, and terminal series of small black luuules. Hah. SiKHiM {Atiiinson, Lklclerdale), 1 <J, 1 2 type; M.\dras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 (^ , 1 $ ; Ceylon, Puudaloya {Green),'S cJ, 2 2 . Exjy. 34-44 millim. 4775. Xylostola olivacea. Xyhstola olivacea, Hnipsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. six. p. 108, pi. iv. f. 16 (1909). 2 . Head and thorax pale red-brown, the vertex of head with a whitish tinge ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown with a slight olive tinge and sparsely irrorated with black, the costal edge and terminal area rather browner; a small subbasal black spot below the cell; antemedial line very indistinct, €xcurved from below costa to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular represented b}"- a few black scales; reniform very incom- pletely defined by black points ; postmedial line very indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely waved, defined on inner side by a slight brown shade and by small black spots between veins 8 and 4, very slightly excurved at middle; a slight oblique blackish shade from apex ; a series of black points just before termcu. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown; cilia red-brown with a fine pale line at base; the underside brownish grey slightly irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal
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