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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



" THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



PART V. 



By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s,, f.r.s. 



(Continued from page 98 in this Vol,) 



Genus Megarthria. 



Megartlir'ia, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., viii., ined. 



Type, — M. vdutineila, Hmpsn. 



Range. — Assam. 



Proboscis short ; palpi straight, porrect, the 2nd joint extending about 



twice the length of head and moderately 

 hairy, the ord well developed j maxil- 

 lary palpi small and filiform ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae with the 1st joint very 

 long and curved, the shaft strongly 



pubescent. Forewing with the costa 



Meqarthria velutlnella. ^,\ j j. i u i xi j. i 



^ ^ ' ^ moderately arched, the apex rectangular ; 



vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4 , 5 very shortly stalked ; 



the disGocellulars curved; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 



10, 11 from cell : male with a glandular swelling at base of costa below 



fringed with hair met by a tuft of hair from below median nervuro ; the 



retinaculum bar-shaped and hairy. Hindwing with vein 3 from close to 



ano-le of cell ; 4, 5 very shortly stalked ; the discocellulars curved ; 6, 7 



stalked, 7 anastomosing very slightly with 8. 



41526. Megarthria velutinella, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., viii, 

 ined., pi 53, f. 12. 



Head and thorax blackish-ljrown with a fulvous patch on -collar; 

 abdomen brownish. Forewing purplish-brown irrorated with black 

 scales ; the base, costa, and veins of outer area strongly tinged with 

 ferruginous-red ; the antemedial line diffused blackish, curved and bent 

 inwards to costa, with a similar line beyond it; a red discocellular mark 

 with a blackish lunule on it ; the postmedial line regularly dentate and 

 obliquely curved from costa to vein 4, where it is obtusely angled ; an 

 evenly dentate submarginal dark line and a series of large marginal 

 black points ; cilia fulvous. Hindwing fuscous with a yellowish tinge; 

 cilia fulvous, underside with indistinct dentate postmedial line. 



