. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 246 HOCTTTID^. 5370. Oruza semilux. Selenis semilux, Wlk. xsxiii. 1069 (1865); Hmpsn. Motha Ind. ii. p. 345. Xanthoptera semifusca, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xiiii. p. 61, pi. 6. f. 8 (1880). Head and tegulse black-brown; tborax white faintly tinged with rufous ; abdomen black-brown with white band at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous. Fore wing black-brown, the costal area white tinged with rufous, extending to inner margin on basal area, the costal edge blackish. Fig. 69.—Oruza
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 246 HOCTTTID^. 5370. Oruza semilux. Selenis semilux, Wlk. xsxiii. 1069 (1865); Hmpsn. Motha Ind. ii. p. 345. Xanthoptera semifusca, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xiiii. p. 61, pi. 6. f. 8 (1880). Head and tegulse black-brown; tborax white faintly tinged with rufous ; abdomen black-brown with white band at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous. Fore wing black-brown, the costal area white tinged with rufous, extending to inner margin on basal area, the costal edge blackish. Fig. 69.—Oruza semilux, ^. |. towards base; an antemedial black point on costa; postmedial line slight, black faintly defined on outer side by white, very oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and minutely waved ; subterminalline with diffused brown bar from costa, then slight, excurved below vein 7, on the dark area minutely waved and faintly defined on outer side by grey ; a series of black points just before termen with slight white striae on their outer edges and some yellow before them at discal fold; a fine waved black terminal line and yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing black-brown irrorated with black, the base white ; a faint blackish discoidal striga ; a faint blackish postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 4, then minutely waved and with slight rufous marks beyond it; faint traces of a curved minutely waved subterminal line; a series of minute black points just before termen ; a fine waved black terminal line and yellowish line at base of cilia ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal point, indistinct curved postmedial and subterminal lines, and a series of black points before termen. Hah. Punjab, Allahabad, 1 $ , Manpuri, 2 5 ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 S ; Bombay, 4 $ , Kanara, Karwar [Bell), 1 5 ; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 $ ; Cetlon {Templeton), 1 j', 2 § type; Singapoee (Ridley), 1 5 ; Celebes, t
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