sniTKA. — EOGEXA. 



170 



tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal area suffused 

 with pale rufous. 



Hub. Ceylon (Templeton), 4 J type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 £. 

 Exp. 30-38 millim. 



3781. Simyra conspersa. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 16.) 



Simyra co?isperaa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p.' 286. 



Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 abdomen white. Fore wing ochreous white thickly and evenly 

 irrorated with reddish brown, usually with two slight brown stria? 

 on discocellulars and one beyond upper angle of cell. Hind wing 

 white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous. 



Hob. Punjab, Man pur i, 1 £ type ; Sikhim, 1 J ; Bengal, Cal- 

 cutta, 1 (j, 2 5 ; Centr. Provinces, Raipur (Betham), 1 $ . Exp. 

 30-42 millim. 



Genus EOGENA. 



Type. 



Eogena, Guen. Noct. i. p. 340 (1852) contaminei. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond irons, the 2nd 

 joint fringed with long hair below; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male laminate; thorax clothed with hair only and 

 without crests ; tibia? fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair 

 at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 6 from upper angle; i) 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; 0, 7 iron) upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



3782. Eogena contaminei. 



Noctua contaminei, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 77, pi. 5. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 134. 

 Cosmia bomhycina, Men. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. vi. p. 285, pi. 6. 



f. 7 (1848). 

 Nocttta eogene, Fit. Neue Schmett. vi. p. 53, pi. 514 (1852). 



Head and thorax bright pink ; antennas fulvous, white at base ; 



Fig. 29. — Eogena contaminei, J. ' r . 



pectus white behind ; abdomen brownish with some white hair at 

 base, the lateral and anal tufts and ventral surface pale pink. 



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