. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TARDASENA. 24o Genus PARDASENA. Type. Vardasena, Wlk. xxxv. 1730 (1866) rxselioides. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- out crests ; tibias slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TARDASENA. 24o Genus PARDASENA. Type. Vardasena, Wlk. xxxv. 1730 (1866) rxselioides. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- out crests ; tibias slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3, rarely given off just before termen ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing of male on underside with patch of black androconia in and below cell; hind wing with black androconia on upper and under sides of costal area to beyond middle, the tornus contorted and with tufts of black hair in the cilia on underside, 6511. Pardasena virgulana. SarrothrijM virgulana, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi'i. p xvii (1880) • Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 369. v ^. Giaura nigriscrvpta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 542 (1905). Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; a black streak on subcostal nervure to the obliquely curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line almost medial, black defined on inner side by white, excurved at subcostal nervure aud below the cell, angled inwards at vein 1, two slight black streaks or a black fascia. Fig. 87. —Pardasena virgulana, (5. |. between it and postmedial line above submedian fold; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by white, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excu
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