. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. SICCIA. 391 Sect. II. {jEmene). Antennte of male with very short branches ending in a^ bristle. A. Fore wing with dentate medial line taprohanis. B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots guttulosana. 832. Siccia taprobanis. Mmene taproha7iis, Wlk. ii. 542 (1854); Moore, Lep. Oeyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. f. 2; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3t) Panassa cingalesa, Wlk, xxxii. (j07 (1865). Autoceras grammopliora, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 24 (1874). ^mene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 18
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. SICCIA. 391 Sect. II. {jEmene). Antennte of male with very short branches ending in a^ bristle. A. Fore wing with dentate medial line taprohanis. B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots guttulosana. 832. Siccia taprobanis. Mmene taproha7iis, Wlk. ii. 542 (1854); Moore, Lep. Oeyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. f. 2; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3t) Panassa cingalesa, Wlk, xxxii. (j07 (1865). Autoceras grammopliora, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 24 (1874). ^mene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 34, pi. 3. f. 11; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 367. Pale grey ; palpi black ; mesothorax, ends of patagia, tibiae and tarsi with black spots ; abdomen tinged with fuscous, the aual tut't grey. Fore wing with black spot at base of costa, w^ith line from it to submedian fold, angled on median nervure ; a triangular spot on costa before middle with a line from just below it to vein 1, strongly incurved below the cell; a spot at middle of cell; a medial line angled outwards on sub- costal and median nervures and inwards below the cell; a discoidal spot; the post- medial line minutely den- tate, angled at veins 6 and 4, bent inwards below vein 2 and with some fuscous ¥\'pTobanis,S. \. suffusion between it and (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) the medial line on inner area; a dentate line be- yond it from costa to vein 2, more strongly angled at vein 6 and often indistinct; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards base ; an indistinct discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line more prominent on underside; cilia whitish. The form from Dharmstila and Bombay is rather whiter than the Ceylon form. Hah. Himalayas, Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 § ; Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis, Nagas; Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 S, 1 $ ; Ceylon (Templeton), 1 c?, 2 $, ty^pe and type ciyigalesa, Dickoya {Green), 1 c?, 2 5 ; Malacca. Exp., S 24, $ 30 millim. Type f sinuata in Coll, Staudinger.
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