PARDASENA. 245 
Genus PARDASENA. 
Type. 
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Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 
antennz of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- 
out crests; tibiw slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at 
base only. 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; 9 
from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing 
with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3, rarely given 
off just before termen ; 6, 7 from upper augle; 8 anastomosing with the cull 
near base only. 
Secr. I, Fore wing of male on underside with patch of black androconia in 
and below cell; hind wing with black androconia on upper and 
under sides of costal area to beyond middle, the tornus contorted 
and with tufts of black hair in the cilia on underside. 
6511. Pardasena virgulana. 
Sarvothripa virgulana, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi‘i. p. xvii (1880) ; 
Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 369. 
Giaura nigriscripta, Hmpsn. A, M, N. H. (7) xvi. p, 542 (1905), 
Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous; abdomen white 
dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and 
suffused with fuscous brown; a black streak on subcostal nervure 
to the obliquely curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 
antemedial line almost medial, black defined on inner side by 
white, excurved at subcostal nervure and below the cell, angled 
inwards at vein 1, two slight black streaks or a black fascia 
Fig, 87. —Pardasena virgulana, 3. }. 
between it and postmedial line above submedian fold; postmedial 
line black slightly defined on outer side by white, oblique from 
costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excurved to 
vein 4, then incurved and again slightly excurved at vein 1, the 
veins beyond it slightly streaked with black; subterminal line 
black, punctiform, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind 
wing white, the veins towards termen and the termen from 
apex to vein 2 tinged with brown in female. 
Hab. Br. KE. Arerca, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $, 1 9, Kikuyu 
(Crawshay), 1 Q type nigriscripta, Sabaki Valley (Gregory), 2 Q ; 
Transvaan (Cholmley), 1 9 ; Navan, Durban (Leigh), 2 2 ; Mana- 
GAscAR, type T in Coll. Mabille. wp. 18-24 millim. 
