NAMAXtiAXA. ")-15 



porrect; irons smooth; eyeg large, founded; antenna? of male typically 

 ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and raetathorax 

 with spreading crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen witli 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with ihe apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins ,"> and .") from near angle of cell ; (> 

 from upper angle; !• from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; ."> obsolescent, from middle 

 of discocelhdars ; 0,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. (Eupolia). Antennnse of male bipectinate with long branehss. 



A. Fore wing red-brown pectinicomis. 



B. Fore wing grey licentiosa. 



4278. Namangana pectinicomis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 30.) 



Xanthoptcra pectinicomis, Ilmpsn. Trans. Eat. Soe. 1895, p. 302; id. 

 Moths Ind. iv. p. 515. 



3 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; pectus 

 and legs grey tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white; abdomen whitish, the basal crest fuscous, the anal tuft 

 tinged with ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with 

 fuscous and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold ; orbicular and reniforra very 

 small, faintly defined by blackish, the former whitish, oblique 

 elliptical, the latter with brown centre and whitish annulus ; a 

 slight dark medial shade, obliquo from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmeclial line hardly traceable, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then oblique ; a terminal series of minute black lunules ; 

 cilia with fine pale line at base followed by a strong black line. 

 Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with brown ; a slight. 

 brown terminal line and the cilia tinged with ochreous from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area whitish tinged with 

 rufous. 



Hab. Bengal, Calcutta, 1 cf ; Madras, Belgaum (Watson),! 3; 

 Ceylon, Hambantota (Macl-wood), 1 3 type, Pattalam (Pole), 1 <S , 

 1 $ . Exp. 20 mil lira. 



*4279. Namangana licentiosa. 



Eupo/ia licentiosa, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 70, pi. .">. f. 8 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 161. 



Head and thorax ashen grey with dark irroration ; the tips of 

 tegulse and disk of patagia with a yellowish tinge ; abdomen grey. 

 Fore wung ashen grey irrorated with fuscous, the markings in- 

 distinct and interrupted ; subbasal and antemedial lines hardly 



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