Moths . ite, irrorated with afew black scales on outer area. Hind wing suffused with fuscousexcept the costal and outer areas. Underside of fore wing withdiffused black streaks on costal area and median nervure beyondcell. Eab. Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. Genus , Mag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 282. Type, 31. pandavella, Rag. Range. N. America ; W. Indies ; China ; India; Ceylon. Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending abouttwice the length of head; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled;frons with a conical projection; antennae of male thickened andflattened ; t
Moths . ite, irrorated with afew black scales on outer area. Hind wing suffused with fuscousexcept the costal and outer areas. Underside of fore wing withdiffused black streaks on costal area and median nervure beyondcell. Eab. Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. Genus , Mag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 282. Type, 31. pandavella, Rag. Range. N. America ; W. Indies ; China ; India; Ceylon. Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending abouttwice the length of head; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled;frons with a conical projection; antennae of male thickened andflattened ; tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length ofinner. Tore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded ; veins 4, 5from angle of cell; 3 absent; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free; theouter margin produced from apex to vein 5. Hind wing withvein 3 absent; 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; theupper margin of cell widely separated from 8, 7 curving upwardsto anastomose with 8. MESOLIA.— 31. 4218. Mesolia pandavella, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888. p. 282 ; C. fy S. no. 4724. 3. Dark reddish brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with diffused whitish fascia from base below median nervure to outer margin ; a brown medial line with white inner edge, oblique from costa to vein 4, then angled and dentate inwards on vein 2 ; a white line acrossFig. 19.—Mesolia pandavella, rf. f. ? i -i j ,i ° r . u 2 apical area angled on the margin at vein 6, then dentate ; a sinnous white line across apex ; cilia with a dark line through them from costa to the indentation. Hind wing whitish. $ browner, with hardly a trace of the pale fascia on fore wing. N. Indian specimens are paler and more rufous than those fromCevlon. Hah. Dharmsala ; Lahore; Trichinopoly ; Ceylon. Exp., 6 18,$ 22 millim. Genus SUEATTHA. Surattha, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 75 (1863).Calarina, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1769 (1866). Type, S. invectalis, Wlk. Range. India, Ceylon, and Burma; Java; Australia; Africa. Palpi
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