. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 234 NOCTUIB^, and prominent white spot at inner margin ; faint traces of a pale curved subterminal line ; a fine waved black terminal line with black points in the interspaces ; the underside greyish suffused with brown, an indistinct dark discoidal striga and curved post- medial liue. Hab. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 c?, 1 $ type atriceps ; BoETSTEo, Sarawak (Wallace), 2 5 ; Mtsol ; Dutch N". Guinea, Kapaur (DoJierty), 1 c? ; Queensland, Kuranda (Bodd), 1 $. Kvjy. 22-26 millim. Type f $ and type acidaliaria in Mus. Oxo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 234 NOCTUIB^, and prominent white spot at inner margin ; faint traces of a pale curved subterminal line ; a fine waved black terminal line with black points in the interspaces ; the underside greyish suffused with brown, an indistinct dark discoidal striga and curved post- medial liue. Hab. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 c?, 1 $ type atriceps ; BoETSTEo, Sarawak (Wallace), 2 5 ; Mtsol ; Dutch N". Guinea, Kapaur (DoJierty), 1 c? ; Queensland, Kuranda (Bodd), 1 $. Kvjy. 22-26 millim. Type f $ and type acidaliaria in Mus. Oxon. ' Genus OEUZA. Type. Oruza, Wlk. xxiv. 1089 (1862) costaia. Zurobata, Wlk. xxsiv. 1276(1865) • rorata. Ciorvatula, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 601 (1892) mira. Vittappressa, , Not- Zool. xiii. p. 206 (1906) rufiplaga. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd well developed ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae typically slightly fringed with hair, the spxirs long; abdomen without ci-ests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced aiid acute, the termen typically evenly curved and crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 fi'om upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excurved at middle, then excised and dentate; hind wing with the termen angled at veins 7 and 4; fore femora of male with tufts of long curled hair, the tibia with thick tufts on both aides; mid and hind tibiae fringed with long hair on both sides. *5357. Oruza unipunctata. Oniza unipunctata, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 215 (1906). S. Head, thorax, and a
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