PA.LPOXIMA. — CL.VVIPALPULA. 433 



double, nearly even, slightly curved and oblique ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, with blackish centres and pale brown annul! 

 defined by black ; medial lise excurved from costa to median 

 uervure ; postmedial line more or less distinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with a series of 

 short black streaks on the veins beyond it interrupted by white 

 points ; some pale points on costa before the subterminal line, 





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Fi^'. lib.— Pal poninia orthosioides, S- \- (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



which is whitish tinged with rufous and very slightly and evenly 

 curved ; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the underside greyer irrorated with fuscous, a 

 black diseoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ^uch paler and greyer : fore wing with a series of black 

 spots before the subterminal line and somewhat dentate at middle. 

 — Simla. 



Hah. PuxJATj, Mandi (Hocking), 3 d" , 5 $ , type, Simla (Ntirse), 

 1 2 • E^vp. 32 millim. 



Genus CLAVIPALPULA. 



Type. 



Clavipalpula, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 499 (1892) aurarics. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, porrect, and somewhat dilated at 

 extremity ; frons smooth ; anteanie of male strongly ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair only and without distinct crests ; tibia moderately hairy ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base. Fore wing with the termen crenulate and 

 obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1771. Clavipalpula aurariae. 



Taniocampa aurarim, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 76, pi. iii. f. 6 (1880) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. 



2 . Head and thorax whitish tinged wi^h rufous, especially on 

 tegulse ; sides of palpi and frons dark brown ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with red-brown, the medial 

 area red-brown except inner margin ; a small black spot below 

 base of cell, with the subbasal line just beyond it represented by 

 oblique black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, very oblique, sinuous and incurved to inner margin ; 

 median nervure and veins 3, 4 streaked with whitish ; orbicular 



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