JOUENAL 



OF THE 



Natural Jistorg ^otkty^, 



Vol. XIV. 



BOMBAY. 



No. 2. 



THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



"THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES II. PART VI. 



By Sir G-. F, Hampson, Bart., p.z.s., p.e.s, 



{Continued from page 117 , of this Volume.) 



Moths of India— 5a. 



Genus Pexinola. 



Type. 

 Pexinola, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal, B. M., II., p. 79 (1900)... longirostris. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending quite three times the length 



of head and strongly curved downwards 

 the 2nd joint fringed with hair above and 

 with tuft at extremity below, the 3rd well 

 developed ; antenna of female minutely 

 ciliated ; legs long and slender, the spurs 

 Pexinola longirostris $ \. long. Forewing elongate, narrow the 



apex produced and acute ; veins 2 and 3 curved, the former from close to angle 

 of cell, the latter from angle ; 4 from angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6 and 7 

 separate from below angle of cell ; 8'9 shortly stalked ; 10*11 from celL 

 Hind wing with veia 2 from middle of cell ; 3 and 5 from angle ; 4 absent ; 

 6*7 coincident ; 8 from middle of cell ; the median nervure and vein 1 strongly 

 pectinated above. 



1550c. Pexinola longirostris, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., II., 

 p. 79 (1900). 



9. Head, thorax and abdomen grey-white strongly mixed with black. 

 Forewing grey suffused with olive-brown and strongly irrorated with black ; 

 an autemedial ridge of blackish scales tipped with white from subcosta,! 

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