. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 272 N-OCTTJID^. irrorated with black; antemedial line represented by black points on costa and in submedian fold ; two black discoidal points; a medial brownish shade, oblique from costa to beyond upper angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, yellowish, minutely dentate, with a series of blackish points on its inner side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some yellowish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, yellowish with slight dark suffusion on outer side, minutel


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 272 N-OCTTJID^. irrorated with black; antemedial line represented by black points on costa and in submedian fold ; two black discoidal points; a medial brownish shade, oblique from costa to beyond upper angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, yellowish, minutely dentate, with a series of blackish points on its inner side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some yellowish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, yellowish with slight dark suffusion on outer side, minutely dentate, angled inwards in diseal fold, excurved at middle, then oblique ; a fine. Fig. 79.—Mimoruza nigriceps, (^. \. crenulate blackish terminal line with points in the interspaces. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with blackish; a black discoidal point; a slight sinuous dark postmedial line defined on outer side by yellowish; traces of a minutely waved yellowish subterminal line defined on outer side by slight dark suffusion ; a fine crenulate blackish terminal line with points in the interspaces ; the underside j'ellowish with black point at lower angle of cell and faint postmedial and subterminal shades. Hah. SiKHiM {Dudgeon), 1 5 type; Ceylon, Puttalam {Pole), 1 6 . Exp. 22 millim. Genus PARORUZA. Type. Paroruza, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 40G (1902) suhductata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennje of male bipectinate with short branches ending in a bristle, the apex serrate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scale* and without crests; tibiaj smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; (5 from upper angle ; 9, 10 strongly anastomosing with 8 to form t


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