SYMITHA. 2435 
prominent obliquely placed points below middle of cell; postmedial 
line fuscous defined by white on inner side, very minutely waved, 
very oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, a fascous 
patch beyond it on costa with white streak below it curving up to 
apex; some white points on costa towards apex; a fuscous mark 
beyond the postmedial line in submedian fold; subterminal line 
white with fuscous marks on its inner side, excurved below costa 
and at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white 
slightly tinged with brown. 
Hab, Borneo, Pulo Laut (Doherty), 1 3 type. Hvp. 13 millim. 
Genus SYMITHA. Type 
Symitha, Wik. xxxv. 1731 (1865) ....... eee seme seat aioenenaanae nolalella, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and slightly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd long and typically 
smoothly scaled; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; 
auntenne of male minutely ciliated ; prothorax without crest, metathorax with 
large spreading crest; fore tibiee fringed on both sides with long hair; mid 
and hind tibize smoothly scaled; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only, 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from below 
upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; U1 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3; 6, 7 from upper 
angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint fringed with hair above towards base. 
6509. Symitha indicatana. 
Tortrix indicatana, Wik. xxviii. 333 (1863); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. ix. 
p- 107, pl. 163. f. 18; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 387. 
Head and thorax white mixed with some dark brown, the 
tegula almost wholly dark brown, the patagia with two brown bars 
towards tips; the fore legs dark brown on inner side; abdomen 
whitish tinged with brown dorsally, the basal crest black at tip. Fore 
3 
Fig. 85.—Symitha indicatana, 3. 3. 
wing white irrorated with brown; a brown spot at base of cell ; ante- 
medial line double, brown filled in with white, oblique from costa to 
vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique brown band 
beyond it from costa to submedian fold with dark spots beyond it 
belo-y costa and in cell ; medial line double, waved, with a black mark 
R2 
