272 N0CTI7ID.E. 



irrorated with black; anteinedial line represented by black points 

 on costn and in submedian fold ; two black discoidal points ; 

 a medial brownish shade, oblique from costa to beyond upper angle 

 of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, yellowish, 

 minutely dentate, with a series of blackish points on its inner side, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some yellowish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, yellowish with 

 alight dark suffusion on outer side, minutely dentate, angled 

 inwards in discal fold, excurved at middle, then oblique ; a fine 



Fig. 79. — Mimoruza nigriceps, S- !• 



crenulate blackish terminal line with points in the interspaces. 

 Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with blackish; a black discoidal point; a slight sinuous dark 

 postmedial line defined on outer side by yellowish ; traces of a 

 minutely waved yellowish subterminal line defined on outer side by 

 slight dark suffusion ; a fine crenulate blackish terminal line witli 

 points in the interspaces ; the underside yellowish with black point 

 at lower angle of cell and faint postmedial and subterminal shades. 

 Hub. Sikuim {Dudgeon), 1 $ type ; Ceylon, Puttalam (Pule), 

 1 d . Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus PARORUZA. 



Type. 



Paroruza, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 406 (1902) subductata. 



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

 about to vertex of head, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate with short branches ending in a bristle, the apex 

 serrate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scale* and without crests ; tibiae 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; (5 from upper angle ; 9, 10 

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

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well above 

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



5411. Paroruza subductata. 



Acidalia subductata, Wlk. xxiii. 790 (1861). 



Head and thorax purplish rufous, the head with some black 

 mixed ; abdomen rufous irrorated with black and with ochreous 

 segmental lines except towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Pore wing 

 purplish rufous irrorated with black ; traces of a pale antemedial 



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