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MEDASINA STRIXARIA (Plate 190, Fir.. 1, la^? ?, 1?^ larva). 

 Hemcrophila Siri.mria, Gueiioe, Pbal. i. p. 217 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 318. 



Male. Brownish-ocbreous. Wings with numerous sliort slender transverse 

 dark brown strigas : forewing paler along the anterior half; the strigaa blackish 

 along base of the costa and exterior border ; crossed by an irregular, angulated very 

 oblique discal black line, which is thickest hindward, and a submargiual pale wavy 

 line, the inner area between which is dark brown from the angle below the apex, 

 and the outer marginal area paler ; a diffuse black spot at end of the cell, and two 

 ]>rown streaks ascending from the posterior margin before the discal line : hindwing 

 with the exterior base free from brown strigce ; a diffuse black spot at end of the 

 cell ; an irregular discal line, and a wavy pale outer-bordered brown submargiual 

 fascia. Abdomen with a slender black band near the base ; front of head, palpi, 

 bands on fore and middle legs, and speckles on hind legs, dark brown. Female 

 more uniformly brownish-ochreous : forewiug with the discal hue slender through- 

 out its length, and witli an indistinct speckled sinuous line across the middle; 

 maroinal luuular line black. 



Expanse ^ 3, ? 3| inches. 



Taken at " Dickoya " (Green). 



Larva with 10 legs ; twig-like ; elongated ; head flat in front ; a slight dorsal 

 pointed prominence on 2Qd segment, and two short conical prominences on 8th, and 

 two or three lateral tubercles on the 6th ; colour olive-brown, numerously covered 

 with dark purple-brown speckles and short longitudinal narrow streaks ; spiracles 

 black ringed. Pupa dark purple-red ; head obtuse, anal segment pointed. 



" Feeds on Acanthads " {Tlnvaltes). 



Genus MENOPHRA. 

 Hemcrophila* Stephens, Catal. Brit. lus. ii. p. 125 (1829); id. Illast. Haust. iii. p. 189 (1830) ; 



Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 315 (I860). 

 Si/nop.tia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 317. 



Male. Forewing elongate, triangular ; apex somewhat pointed, exterior margin 

 slightly scalloped ; cell fully half the length ; first subcostal about one-seventh, first 

 and second joined at their base, first slightly touching the costal near the base, third 

 near end of cell, trifid, sixth from end ; discocellular slightly concave and outwardly 

 oblique, radial from the middle ; the middle median close to end of cell, lower 

 nearly one-third : hindwing short, broad ; exterior margin convex, deeply scalloped ; 

 cell half the length ; first subcostal close to end; discocellular outwardly concave ; 

 middle median very close to end, lower about one-thii-d. Body slender; palpi 



♦ Used by Hiibner, Tentaraen, p. 2 (180G). 

 VOIi. III. 3 G 



