SICCIA. 



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Sect. II. {Mmene). Antennre of male with very short branches euding iu a 

 bristle. 



A. Fore wing with dentate medial line taprohanis. 



B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots (jutiulosana, 



832. Siccia taproljanis. 



Mmene twprohanis. Wlk. ii. 542 (1854) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. 



f. 2 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92 ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 3l)7. ' 

 Panansa cmgalesa, Wlk, xxxii. GOT (18G5). 

 Autoceras grammoplwra, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. lOG. f. 24 (1874). 

 • jEmene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. a4, pi. 3. Ill; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 367. 



Pale grej- ; ptilpi black ; mesothorax, ends of patagia, tibiae and 

 tarsi with black spots ; abdomen tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft 

 grey. Fore wing with black spot at base of costa, with line from it 

 to submedian fold, angled on median nervure ; a triangular spot on 

 costa before middle with a line from just below it to vein 1, strongly 

 incurved below the cell ; a spot at middle of cell ; a medial line 



angled outwards on sub- 

 costal and median nervnres 

 and inwards below the cell; 

 a discoidal spot ; the post- 

 medial line minutely den- 

 tate, augled at veins 6 and 

 4, bent inwards below vein 

 2 and with some fuscous 

 suffusion between it and 

 the medial line on inner 

 area ; a dentate line be- 

 yond it from costa to vein 2, more strongly angled at vein 6 and 

 often indistinct ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous, 

 whitish towards base ; an indistinct discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line more prominent on underside ; cilia whitish. 



The form from Dharmsala and JJombay is rather whiter than the 

 Ceylon form. 



Hub. N.W. Himalayas, Dharmsala (Hoching), 1 $ ; Sikhim ; 

 Assam, Khasis, ISTagas ; Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 d ■, 1 $ ; Ceyloi^ 

 (Templeton), 1 cJ, 2 $, type and type cmgalesa, Dickoya (G)-een), 

 1 c? , 2 5 ; Malacca. Kvj)., d 24, $ 30 millim. Tyjje t sinuata 

 in Coll. Staudinger. 



833. Siccia guttulosana. 



Tospitis guttulosana, Wlk. xxviii. 429 (1863); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. (55, 

 pi. 104. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 02 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3G7. 



Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi and spots on mesothorax 

 black ; fore legs marked with black; abdomen fuscous, whitish below. 

 Fore wingwith subbasal black spotson costa and below cell; an ante- 

 medial spoc on costa, a point in cell, a spot below the ceil, and point 



Fig. 304.- — Siccia taprohanis, J'. 

 (From Motlis Ind. vol. ii.) 



