SYDIVA. 



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fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair and hair-like scales, 

 the vertex of head crested, the thorax without distinct crests ; pectus and tibife 

 clotbed with long hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair, a series of dorsal 

 crests on basal segments and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle ; U from 10 anastomosing with S to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 6 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; S anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



255S. Sydiva nigrogrisea. 



Si/diva niqrogrisea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 96 (1SS2) ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 224. 



Head and thorax black mixed witli some brown and white ; 

 antennae with white rings at base ; pectus clothed with pale fulvous 

 hair ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous suffused with 

 brown, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown irrorated 

 with ochreous and grey ; some ochreous at base of inner margin ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa defined by 

 white on each side ; antemedial line black defined by greyish on 

 inner side and with small ochreous spots at costa and submedian 

 fold, oblique, slightly waved ; orbicular and reuiform with grey- 

 irrorated centres and incomplete ochreous annuli defined by black, 



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Fig. 122. — Sydiva nigrogrisea, J. \. 



the former small, upright elliptical, the latter large and constricted 

 at middle ; medial line oblique and diffused from costa to median 

 nervure, then dentate ; postmedial line forming an ochreous- white 

 spot on costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 defined by grey on outer side, incurved below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of a series of 

 Avhitish lunules in the interspaces with black spots beyond them ; 

 cilia black-brown intersected with white forming white points at 

 base and with black line through them. Hind wing with the basal 

 half pale brownish ochreous, the terminal half pale fuscous brown ; 

 a black streak on extremity of vein 2 ; cilia brown at base, white 

 at tips ; the underside with curved, rather diffused postmedial line 

 showing through to upperside. 



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