. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SIMTRA. KOOKXA. 170 tinned with oclireous ; the underside with the costal area sufl'iised with pale rufous. H((h. Ceylon (Templeton), 4 J type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 $. Ex2y. 30-38 millim, 3781. Simyra conspersa. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 16.) Simyra couspersa, Moure, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; Ilinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p.' 286. Head aud thorax ochreous white siighth' irrorated with brown ; abdomeu white. Fore wing ochreous w'hite thickly and evenly irrorated with reddish brown, usually with two slight brown striae on discocellulars and one b


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SIMTRA. KOOKXA. 170 tinned with oclireous ; the underside with the costal area sufl'iised with pale rufous. H((h. Ceylon (Templeton), 4 J type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 $. Ex2y. 30-38 millim, 3781. Simyra conspersa. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 16.) Simyra couspersa, Moure, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; Ilinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p.' 286. Head aud thorax ochreous white siighth' irrorated with brown ; abdomeu white. Fore wing ochreous w'hite thickly and evenly irrorated with reddish brown, usually with two slight brown striae on discocellulars and one beyond upper angle of cell. Hind wing white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous. Hah. Pdxjab, Manpiiri, 1 5 type ; Sikhim, 1 J ; Bengal, Cal- cutta, 1 c^i 2 $ ; Cente. Pkovinces, Kaipur (Betham), 1$. Exj^). 30-42 millim. Genus EOGENA. Tvpe. Eoffoia, Guen. Xoct. i. p. 340 (1852) coHfaminei. Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond froiis, the 2nd joint frinj^ed witli long liair below; frons smooth, with tuft, of liair; eves large, round; aiitennn? of male laminate; thorax clothed with hair only and witiiout crests ; tibiffi fringed with long liair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; U from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 ircjm upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3782. Eogena contaminei. Kocfun. confamuiei, Et. Bull. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 77, pi. 5. f. 6 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. Cosmia bomhycina. Men. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. vi. p. 285, pi. 6. f. 7 (1848). Noctua eogene, Frr. Neue Schmott. vi. p. 53, pi. 514 (1852). Head and thorax bright pink; antennae fulvous, white at base ;. Fig. 29.—Eocjena contaminei, S- \- pectus white behi


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