Moths . ine through base of cilia interrupted at the lobe by twoblack spots, with white above them and orange inside them ; ciliaof both wings fuscous and grey. Hab. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 22, $ 26 millim. b. Hind legs of male with large tufts of curved hair extendingbackwards from the coxce. 4678. Oligostigma picale, Guen. Belt, 8f Pyr. p. 274; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 174, fig. 23. d . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous and white. Fore wing-fuscous, with a large white patch covering the whole basal areaexcept costa, and bounded by an oblique dark antemedial bandarising from an orbicular mark in
Moths . ine through base of cilia interrupted at the lobe by twoblack spots, with white above them and orange inside them ; ciliaof both wings fuscous and grey. Hab. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 22, $ 26 millim. b. Hind legs of male with large tufts of curved hair extendingbackwards from the coxce. 4678. Oligostigma picale, Guen. Belt, 8f Pyr. p. 274; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 174, fig. 23. d . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous and white. Fore wing-fuscous, with a large white patch covering the whole basal areaexcept costa, and bounded by an oblique dark antemedial bandarising from an orbicular mark in cell; the whole medial area white except the costa, and alarge oval postmedial fulvousmark below costa with darkedges and dark centre ; apostmedial line excurved be-tween veins 5 and 2, thenFig. , $. f, bent inwards to below angle of cell, the area beyond itfuscous towards inner margin, and with a large white patch fromcosta to vein 4 and • small spot below vein 2; a marginal orange. OLIGOSTIGMA. 211 band defined inwardly by a black line and outwardly by a maculateline. Hind wing with the basal half white, with dark patch onbase of inner area ; the outer half greyish fuscous, with slightlysinuous postruedial fulvous band ; a marginal series of black spots ;two black spots and two white specks at the lobe, with orangeinside them; cilia of both wings fuscous. 2 with the whole of fore wing fuscous, obscuring the markingsas far as the white submarginal patch, except a white patch onmiddle of inner margin. Hab. Ganjam; Ceylon. Exp., <3 14, $ 16 millim. B. Antennce of male thickened and flattened by appressed serrations. 4679. Oligostigma dianale, Hmpsn. III. Set. ix, p. 177, pi. 174, fig. 27. 6 • Head and thorax fulvous, the vertex of head white, theprothorax and a spot on metathorax white ; abdomen orange, theextremity white. Tore wing fulvous, the costal area and apicalthird of wing orange; the cell striated with silvery grey; a greyfascia below median n
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