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eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed ; 

 chiefly with scales, the vertex of thorax with broad ridge-like crest ; tibiee 

 moderately scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore- 

 wing short and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen somewhat excised 

 towards tornus, the inner margin lobed near base and with slight scale 

 tooth at tornus ; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 34 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6 - 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Forewing with the orbicular and reniform with whitish 



annuli defined by black . , . . . . . . tenebrosa. 



B. Forewing with the orbicular and reniform indistinctly 



defined . . . . . . . . . . subcurva. 



1725a. Stenopterygia tenebrosa, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M., vii., 

 p. 61, pi. 109, f. 11 (1908). 



S . Head and base of tegulte ochreous mixed with black-brown ; thorax 

 black-brown with a few ochreous scales ; palpi black at sides, pale in front ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs ochreous irrorated with brown, 

 the tarsi slightly banded with black ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with brown, the crests and anal tuft blackish. Forewing red-brown mostly 

 suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by two black stride 

 from costa filled in with ochreous ; a blackish patch above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, which is double at costa filled in with ochreous, 

 then rather oblique, waved ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with brown centres and slight greyish annuli defined by 

 black ; the former rounded, the latter constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line double at costa and filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, at vein 3 bent inwards to below angle of cell, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa, subterminal line represented by some pale points 

 defined on inner side by black-brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and bent inwards at vein 3 ; a terminal series of minute white 

 points ; cilia black-brown. Hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, 

 especially on terminal area, the veins dark ; cilia whitish chequered with 

 brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal areas 

 suffused with brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Madras, Godavari District, Rajamahendri. Exp. 28 mill. 



1725. Stenopterygia subcurva. 



Hadena subcurva, Wlk., xi, 592 (1857). 

 postica, Wlk., xi, 594 (1857). 



Xylina calida, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vi, p. 195 (1862). 



Dipterygia sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 105 (1882). 



Opigena monostigma, Saalm. Lep. Madag., p. 287, f. 104 (1891). 

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