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4218. Mesolia pandavella, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 282 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4724 



c? . Dark reddish brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 



with diffused whitish fascia 

 from base below median 

 nervure to outer margin ; a 

 brown medial line with white 

 inner edge, oblique from 

 costa to vein 4, then angled 

 and dentate inwards on 



vein 2 ; a white line across 

 Fi S .19.-Mesoha pandavella, J. f. 



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margin at vein 6, then dentate ; a sinuous white line across apex ; 

 cilia with a dark line through them from costa to the indentation. 

 Hind wing whitish. 



$ browner, with hardly a trace of the pale fascia on fore wing. 



N. Indian specimens are paler and more rufous than those from 

 Ceylon. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Lahore ; Trichinopoly ; Ceylon. Exp., <J 18, 

 $ 22 millim. 



Genus STTRATTHA. 



Surattha, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 75 (1863). 

 Calarina, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1769 (1866). 



Type, S. invectatis, Wlk. 



Range, India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; Australia ; Africa. 



Palpi porrect and thickly scaled, extending about one and a half 

 times length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; frons 

 with a conical process ; antennae of male bipectinated, usually with 

 long branches ; tibiae with the spurs long, the outer spurs about 

 two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 usually on a long 

 stalk; 6, 7 and 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 5 absent ; 6 obsolescent from above middle of disco- 

 cellulars, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 stalked. 



4219. Surattha invectalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 76 ; C. $ S. no. 4723. 

 Pindicitora thysbesalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 135 ; C. $ S. no. 4718. 

 Scopula nigritascialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1472 ; C. fy S. no. 4155. 

 Calarina albirenella, Walk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1770 ; C. $ S. no. 4721. 



Greyish ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 indistinct pale waved antemedial line, with fuscous sufl: usion on the 

 edges ; similar more distinct medial and postmedial lines, the latter 

 angled on vein 5, the former with dentate dark marks on its outer 

 edge, the latter on its inner ; a white spot beyond discocellulars ; 



