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6571. Giaura sceptica. 
Symitha sceptica, Swinh, P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 461, pl. 27. f. 6; Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind. 11. p. 385, 
Head and thorax grey tinged with brown; palpi with black spots 
at base of joints; tegule sometimes with blackish band before tips, 
the mesothorax sometimes with pair of blackish spots; pectus and 
legs white, the fore and mid tibie and tarsi with brown mixed, 
the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally suffused with 
brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and suffused with pale 
brown; a black point at base; a curved series of three subbasal 
points below costa and in and below cell; a blackish medial line 
angled inwards below costa, at median nervure and vein I, and 
outwards in cell and submedian fold ; black points on discocellulars 
and just below angle of cell; postmedial line whitish defined by 
slight black points on inner and outer sides and by some fuscous 
suffusion on outer, oblique from costa to vein 6, angled inwards at 
discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and excurved above inner 
margin ; a waved blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 
and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 
series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the 
veins and terminal area suffused with brown; cilia white slightly 
tinged with brown at base; the underside white, the termen 
suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Puysas, Almorah (Boys), 1 6, 1 9; Buurin (Dudgeon), 
1 $; Bomsay (Swinhoe), 1 5 type, N. Kanara, Karwar (7. R. 
Bell), 1 §,1 9 ; Cuyton, Peradenyia (Green), 1 $,2 9; Burma, 
E. Pegu; Anpamans, ap. 20-22 millim. 
6572. Giaura tortricoides. 
Orosa tortricoides, Wik. xxxiv. 1223 (1865); Hmpsn. Il. Het. B.M. ix. 
p- 102, pl. 163. f. 23; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 385. 
Sarrothripa curvilinea, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 93, pl. 10. ff. 9a, 
(1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 369. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen brown; tarsi fuscous with pale 
rings; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing 
Fig. 98.—Giaura tortricoides, $. }. 
brown with slight dark irroration ; a curved black antemedial line 
from costa to submedian fold, slightly defined on outer side by 
