PHROMNIA. 



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1991. Phromnia montivaga, I)ist. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 284, t. xiii, f. 5. 

 Flata floccosa, Mclich.inecGuer.) Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvi, p. 208, 

 t. i, f. 9 (1901), cxcl. syn. 



Head and thorax above reddish ; abdomen and legs pale ochra- 

 ceous ; eyes, antennae, anterior and intermediate tibia? and tarsi, 

 and the posterior tarsi black ; tegmina ochraceous, reddish- 

 ochraceons on disk of basal half and clavus, the costal area and 

 the apical half thickly powdered with greyish tomentnm, the basal 

 disk very sparingly so, the apical margin and a double curved 

 discal fascia on outer half very pale fuscous and very indistinctly 

 seen through the tonientose covering, a black central spot near 

 base ; wiugs greyish-white. 



Length excl. tegm. 13 ; exp. tegm. 50 millim. 



Hah. " Ostindien" (Melichar). — Borneo ; Kina Balu Mt. 



I include this species in the fauna of British India on the 

 authority of Dr. Melichar, \\ho has figured it as P.floccosa, Gucr. 



1992. Phromnia viridula, Atkim. (Cerynia) J. A. S. Benq. Ivii, p. 340 

 (1888) ; Melich. (Flata) Ann. Hofinus. Wien, xvi, p. 212 (1901). 



Body and legs greenish-ochraceous, abdomen thickly cretaceously 

 tonientose ; legs with the anterior and intermediate tarsi piceous ; 

 tegmina virescent, a little ochraceous at base, two black linear 

 spots with bluish-grey margins on disk, the first near middle of 



Fig. 206. — Fhroiiuiia ririclula. 



posterior area, the other nearer apex, apical margin continued to 

 near middle of posterior margin very narrowly black ; wings 

 cretaceous-white ; antenna) with the second joint black, its base 

 greenish-ochraceous. 



Var. Tegmina very pale ochraceous with a slight virescent tint; 

 the two black discal spots very small, the uppermost minvite and 

 witliovit pale margins ; the narrow dark marginal edge to the 

 tegmina brownish, not black ; wings lacteous, not cretaceously 

 tomentose. 



Length excl. tegm. 11 to 12; exp, tegm. 45 to 50 millim. 



IJah. Sikhim {fide Melichar). Bombay ; Poena {Atkinson). Tri- 

 vandrum {Coll. Dist.). 



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