. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TYCRACONA. —CRANIOPHORA. 51 and with slight dark streak in submedian fold from beyond it to termen; an indistinct rather diffused brown subterminal line excurved at middle and with slight dark streaks beyond it in the interspaces ; a terminal series of slight dark striae with dark marks. Fig. 15.—Tycracona ohliqua, ($. \. beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing greyish brown with very indistinct diffused subterminal band ; the underside white slightly tinged with brown, a blackish discoidal bar, minutely waved brown postmedial li
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TYCRACONA. —CRANIOPHORA. 51 and with slight dark streak in submedian fold from beyond it to termen; an indistinct rather diffused brown subterminal line excurved at middle and with slight dark streaks beyond it in the interspaces ; a terminal series of slight dark striae with dark marks. Fig. 15.—Tycracona ohliqua, ($. \. beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing greyish brown with very indistinct diffused subterminal band ; the underside white slightly tinged with brown, a blackish discoidal bar, minutely waved brown postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 5, and brown terminal band narrowing to apex and vein 1. Hah. SiKHiM {Dudgeon, P'dclier), 2 (^ ; Bhutan (Dudgeon)^ 1 $ ; Assam {Badgley), 2 d, 2 $ . Exp. 40-44 millim. Genus CRANIOPHORA. Type. Craniophora, Snell. Vlind. van Ned. p. 262 (1872) ligudri. Bisulcia, Chapman, Ent. Rec. i. p. 28 (1890) ligustri. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennae simple and laminate in both sexes; thorax clothed with scales mixed with some hair, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with divided crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests and rough hair at base. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins ?> and 5 from near angle of cell; (3 from upper angle ; 9 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with prominent black fascia in submedian fold extending to termen. a. Fore wing with the claviform large, defined by black nigrivitta, h. Fore wing with the claviform absent fasciaia. B. Fore wing without prominent black
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