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and with slight dark streak in submedian fold from beyond it to 

 termen ; an indistinct rather diffused brown subterminal line 

 excnrved at middle and with slight dark streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces ; a terminal series of slight dark striae with dark mark.-* 



Fig. 15. — Tycracona obliqita, <3 . \. 



beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing greyish brown with very 

 indistinct diffused subterminal baud ; the underside white slightly 

 tinged with brown, a blackish discoidal bar, minutely waved brown 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 5, and brown terminal 

 band narrowing to apex and vein 1. 



Hub. Sikhiji {Dudgeon, Pileher), 2 $ ; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 $; 

 Assam (Badgley), 2 tf , 2 $ . Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Genus CRANI0PH0RA. 



T 



ype. 



Craniophora, Snell. Vlind. van Ned. p. 262 (1872) ligustri. 



Bistdcia, Chapman, Ent. Rec. i. p. 28 (18'JU) ligustri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of irons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frona 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae simple and laminate in both sexes ; 

 thorax clothed with scales mixed with some hair, the prothorax without crest, 

 the metathorax with divided crest ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests and rough hair at base. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins '•> 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; U 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 fruin 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with ihe cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with prominent black fascia in submedian fold 



extending to termen. 



a. Fore wing with the claviform large, defined by black nigrivitta. 



h. Fore wing with the claviform absent f'usciutu. 



B. Fore wing without prominent black fascia in submedian fold. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish grey. 



a 1 . Fore wing with oblique white mark in submedian inter- 

 space before medial line albonigra. 



b l . Fore wing without white mark in submedian interspace 



before medial line preeclara. 



b. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish fuscous nubilata. 



c. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white 



a 1 . Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly tinged with 



brown pontica. 



6\ Hind wing uniform brown paragrapha. 



d. Fore wing red-brown with white patch beyond the cell ... Ligustri. 



e. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with black- brown obscura 



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