. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NUDAKIA. 535' Ab. 1. promelcena. Pore wing with the yellow markings reduced, the postmedial line angled back to costa and not connected with the subapical patch ; hind wing tinged with fuscons.—Khasis. Ab. 2. Yellowish white ; frous, palpi, and legs with hardly a trace of brown. Fore wing with hardly any brown suffusion ; indistinct dentate dark oblique antemedial and postmedial lines ; the point ia cell with some fuscous suffusion beyond it on costal area; an irre- gularly dentate subterminal line bent inwards
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NUDAKIA. 535' Ab. 1. promelcena. Pore wing with the yellow markings reduced, the postmedial line angled back to costa and not connected with the subapical patch ; hind wing tinged with fuscons.—Khasis. Ab. 2. Yellowish white ; frous, palpi, and legs with hardly a trace of brown. Fore wing with hardly any brown suffusion ; indistinct dentate dark oblique antemedial and postmedial lines ; the point ia cell with some fuscous suffusion beyond it on costal area; an irre- gularly dentate subterminal line bent inwards to the postmedial line towards costa. Hah. Tibet, Yatung, 10,500 feet (ffobson), 1 $ ; Sikbim (Lidderdale, Athimon), '36,2 $ ; Assam, Khasis, 1 c5" ^ type jjro- mdcena. Ex]p. 24-26 millim. 1145. Nudaria margaritacea. Nudaria margaritacea, Wlk. xxxi. 275 (1864), $ ; Hmpsii. p. 123 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 361. Nudaria margaritaria, Wlk. xxxi. 275 (18o4), cT. S. Yellowish white ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded with, brown. Fore wing with the costa brown towards base ; a slight subbasal line ; an antemedial brown line obsolescent except towards costa,. slightly angled outwards on me- dian nervure and inwards in sub- Fi-. margaritacea, ^^dian fold; a medial brown line ° J. 1. angled outwards on median ner- (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) vure and bent outwards to inuer margin, a brownish mark on costa towards apex, and sometimes traces of an irregular subterminal line ; a brown spot at middle of cilia. Hind wing with indistinct waved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, 5 . Fore wing with the lines much more prominent, the ante- medial line more angled on median nervui'e; the postmedial line acutely dentate at lower angle of cell, then in form of a ^ ; the sub- terminal line well developed, strongly angled outwards at middle and bent outwards to tornus. Ab. 1. Ground-colour much whiter; fore wing with the lines often, strongly developed in male.—Yatung
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