2S6 NOCTUIDE. 
6576, Giaura robusta. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 32.) 
Selepa robusta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 288 (1888); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 
p. 381. 
2. Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown ; fore tibiz and 
tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused 
with brown, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing whitish tinged 
with pale brown and suffused in parts with blackish especially on 
apical area; subbasal line black, curved inwards to base at sub- 
costal nervure ; a slight black streak below base of cell: antemedial 
line rather diffused, blackish, indistinct except towards costa, 
angled outwards at subcostal nervure, then waved; a diffused 
blackish medial line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line 
double, black tilled in with whitish, obliquely excurved from costa 
to vein 4, then slightly ineurved, some black suffusion heyond it 
on costal area with a pale point on costa; subterminal line black 
defined on inner side by white suffusion and with white suffusion 
beyond it on inner half, minutely dentate; a faint dark shade 
just before termen and a punctiform terminal line. Hind wing 
whitish suffused with brown especially on terminal area from apex 
to vein 2; the underside white, the terminal area tinged with 
brown from apex to vein 2. 
Hab, Srxutm ; Assam, Khasis, 1 9. Hp. 26-30 millim. 
Genus PTISCIANA. 
Type, 
Piresctand, NW lkeseRie Ol ACLS): cess: see oceans: aoe e ee eememaees seminivenr. 
Argyrothripa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 380 (1894)............0.. seminivea. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd very long; frons smooth, with tuft 
of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male with fascicles of 
long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with 
flattened crest, the metathorax with large spreading erest; fore tibie fringed 
on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibiz moderately fringed with 
hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the costa 
arched near base, 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 a long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle or stalked; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
6577. Ptisciana seminivea. 
Ptisciana seminivea, Wik. xxxii. 912 (1865). 
Symitha lilacina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 289 (1888) ; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. 
p- 330. 
Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi white in front ; tips of tegulae 
and the patagia white; pectus and legs white mixed with red- 
brown ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with brown, the basal 
crest white at tip. Fore wing silvery white slightly irrorated with 
red-brown; a small tuft of white scales at base of median neryure ; 
