POCHAZIA. 



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length from posterior angle towards apex narrowly pale flavescent 

 divided by the dark veins ; wings piceous -brown, unicolorous. 



Fig. 193. — I'uvhazia j'mcata. 



Var. Tegmina unicolorous and with a dark olivaceous tint. 

 Mesonotum carinated as in the preceding species ; face with a 

 distinct central earination, the short sublaterai carina? obsolete. 



Length excl. tegm. S to 10 ; exp. tegm. 32 to 39 millim. 



Ilab. Tranquebar, Madras (Coll. Dist.). Burma ; Karen Hills 

 {Doherty). Tavoy {Coll. Dlst.). Hsipaw (de Ificeville). Tenas- 

 serim ; Myitta {Dohertj). — Malay Peninsula. Siunatra, Borneo. 



Melichar, followed by !Matsumura, has confused the synonymy 

 of this species. It was carefully described by IStal in his ' Hemi- 

 ptera Fabriciana/ who added as a synonym his Pocliazia ohscura = 

 Ricania ohscura, Guer. As (luerin tiguj-ed his species, there is no 

 great problem in identification. As regards the ohscura, Fabr., 

 under which name Melichar has enumerated the species, Stal has 

 also (supra) described the type, which was from Amboina, and 

 gives this character for the tegmina : " ante medium et medio 

 pallido couspersis et ti'ansversim pallido-lineolatis, fascia angusta 

 insequali pone medium sita membrauaque costse obscurius fuscis, 

 margine hujas imo pallido, lineola transversa obliqua pone medium 

 marginis costalis albidis," and also the expanse of the tegmina as 

 only 15 millim. Subsequently Melichar (.si{^j7'«) placed the fuscuf a, 

 Fabr., iu the genus Mindura, and gives a figure of it, which appears 

 to me to be quite inapplicable. 



I have still a considerable impression that the species described 

 by Guerin as ohscura u ill ultimately prove to be distinct from 

 that described by Fabriciiis as fascata. I possess but few speci- 

 mens of the latter compared with my series of the former, but, 

 from what T have seen, fiiscata has brown tegmina, costally spotted 

 with pale flavescent, and more concavely sinuate before apex than 

 is the case with the unicolorous olivaceously-tinted tegmina of 

 Guerin's ohscura. The Poclmzla fumata, Amy. & Serv., from Java 

 is possibly conspecific. 



