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SECT. III. Pore wing longer and narrower. 



1703. Hadena pannosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 345 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 147,^ fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 2059. 

 Apaniea sikkinia, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 109 ; C. &f S. no. 20(51. 



Dark brown. Fore wing with the subbasal, ante- and post- 

 medial double lines pale-centred, the second highly angled near 

 inner margin, and with ochreous patches before it below the cell ; 

 the orbicular and reniform greyish ; the claviform small ; a diffused 

 pale patch from beyond the postmedial line to outer angle ; a 

 prominent pale dentate apical patch. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia 

 pale with a line through them. 



The form sikkima is rather redder ; the claviform larger ; no 

 pale patch beyond the postmedial line, and the apical patch 

 obsolescent. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Eocp. 40-50 millim. 



Genus SEMIOPHOEA. 



Semiophora, Steph. Ill Brit. Ent., Haust. ii, p. 138 (1829). 

 Teeniocampa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii, p. 477 (1839). 



Type, S. gothica, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. N. America, Europe, Japan, N."W. Himalayas. 



Eyes hairy ; head deeply inserted in thorax ; proboscis fully 

 developed ; palpi porrect, extending beyond the f rons, clothed with 

 long hair below, and the third joint prominent ; antennae bipecti- 

 nated in male ; thorax evenly rounded ; abdomen without tufts ; 

 tibiae without spines, and clothed with long hair. Pore wing 

 rather long and narrow. 



1704. Semiophora orthosioides, Butl III. Het. vii, p. 56, pi. 128, fig. 1. 



Palpi very long ; branches of antennse long in male. Head and 

 thorax clothed with grey and dark 

 scales ; abdomen pale brown. Pore 

 wing pale brown irrorated with dark 

 scales ; traces of subbasal and ante- 

 medial and a more distinct curved 

 medial line ; a black spot at lower 

 Fig. 124. angle of cell ; a pale submarginal line 



Semiophora orthosioides, <$ . }. with some dark suffusion beyond it. 



Hind wing fuscous. 



ffab. Mandi, N.W. Himalayas. E.rp. 30 millim. 



1705. Semiophora ferrosticta, n. sp. 



cJ . Grey ; antennae and abdomen tinged with rufous. Pore 

 wing slightly irrorated with fuscous; a fuscous streak on b:i>;il 

 inner area ; traces of a sinuous antemedial line ; the orbicular and 

 reniform large and indistinct, with ferruginous and dark brown 



