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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 "THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES III. PART III. 



By Sir George Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



{Continued from page 216 of this Volume.') 



Sub-family Lithosiana. 



Genus Microtana. 



Type. 

 Microtana, Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) VIII, p. 183 (1901) Fusca. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, slender, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antenna? of male ciliated, tibiae with the spurs long. Forewing with the apex 

 rounded ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4*5 stalked ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7-8"9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10*11 from cell. Hindwing with vein 2 

 from towards angle of cell ; 3*4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6'7 stalked ; 8 from middle 

 of cell. 



1391c. Microtana fusca. Hmpsn. A.M.N.H. (7) VIII, p. 183 (1901 ). 



<J. Fuscous brown ; abdomen blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing 



irrorated with black ; 



the costal area blackish 



towards base ; small 



black spots in middle 



and end of cell and 



beyond its extremity ; a 



Microtana fusca. £ ~. blackish patch on costa 



just beyond middle and another before apex ; a terminal series of black points. 



Hindwing fuscous with indistinct discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Matele (Pole). Exp. 12 mill. 



14113a. Ovipennls kinghami, A.M.N.H. (7) XI, p. 349 (1903) (PI. 

 D.f. 18). 



$. Head and thorax white ; palpi at base, antenna;, base of tegular and a 

 band across patagia and thorax fuscous ; fore and mid legs and extremity 

 of hind tibiae and tarsi fuscous above ; abdomen ochreous with the terminal 

 segments grey, the ventral surface white. Forewing with the basal area orange 

 with obliquely sinnous outer edge ; the rest of wing pale reddish brown 

 becoming fuscous towards apex, the margins white, Hindwing fuscous, the 

 inner area pale reddish brown ; the cilia white. 

 Habitat— Up. Burma, Byingin, 2,500'. Exp. 20 mill. 



Genus Gymnasura. 

 Gymnasura, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. II., p. 425 (1900). 

 Type G. saginwa Turner from Queensland. 



