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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 « THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES IV, PART I. 



By 



Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 ( Continued from page 125 of this Volume.) 



Hadenin^e. 

 Genus Trichestra. 



Type. 



Trichestra, Hmpsn., Oat. Lep. Phal. B. M. v., p. 8 (1905). . arbuticolens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, hairy, overhung 

 by cilia ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales, the pro- and meta-thorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Forewing with 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with 

 veins 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6' 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



1691«. Trichestra serrata, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (8) iv., p. 372 

 (1909). 



Antennae of male strongly ~serrate. 



S . Head and thorax reddish-brown mixed'with white and some black ; 

 palpi and frons blackish ; tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with white ; ab- 

 domen dark-brown mixed with white, whitish at sides towards base. Fore- 

 wing rufous mixed with grey and irrorated with black, the terminal area 

 greyer, the veins slightly streaked with white ; subbasal line double, black, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, 

 waved ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular white defined by 

 black, small, rounded ; reniform with white annulus defined by black, 

 somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and with white and black points be- 

 yond it on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white, excurved. below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black striae with white points between them. Hindwing 

 white tinged with brown especially on apical area ; an indistinct dark dis- 

 coidal point and curved postmedial line : a terminal series of black striae ; 



