THE MOTHS OF INDIA. L065 



B. Forewing with the orbicular and reniform not con- 

 fluent on median nervure ... . . . . nadgani. 



1979a. OlIGIA PTYOPHOBA. 



Oligia ptyophora, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M., vii, p. 363 (1908). 



Head and thorax greyish mixed with brown and black ; tarsi black ringed 

 with grey ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the crests black. Forewing 

 red-brown tinged with grey and suffused with fuscous on basal inner and 

 terminal areas ; subbasal line represented by black strise from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line formed of black strise, somewhat oblique, waved and 

 with short black streaks before it in cell, submedian fold and above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform pale brownish incompletely defined 

 by black and open above, the former with slight dark centre, oblique 

 elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre, extending to well below the cell, 

 angled inwards in median nervure and slightly confluent with the former ; 

 a black bar from middle of costa and traces of a waved line on inner area ; 

 postmedial line black, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, strongly excurved to vein 4, then oblique to submedian fold, some 

 slight points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a sinuous 

 grey band from costa to vein 6, spot at middle and oblique striga at 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black striee ; cilia blackish. Hindwing whitish 

 suffused with brown except on costal area ; cilia white mixed with grey, 

 with white line at base followed by a dark line ; the underside ochreous 

 white irrorated with fuscous, a fuscous discoidal spot, curved minutely 

 waved postmedial line, and a terminal series of slight black lunules. 



ab. 1. Forewing with patch of white suffusion in and below cell. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Simla, Dalhousie ; Sikhim, 1,800. Exp. 24-28 mill. 



1979. Oligia nadgani. 



Sect. II. — Forewing of male normal. 



A. Forewing with the . subterminal line distinctly 



dentate. 



a. Forewing violaceous grey suffused with dark-brown vermieulata. 



b. Forewing ochreous suffused with red-brown. 



a 1 . Forewing with the postmedial line slightly 

 incurved below vein 4 and widely separated 

 from the lower extremity of reniform . . pallidisca. 



b l . Forewing with the postmedial line strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and approximated to 

 the lower extremity of reniform . . . . gaueostigma. 



B. Forewing with the subterminal line excurved at 



middle and not dentate. 

 a. Forewing with the postmedial line slightly 

 incurved below vein 4 and widely separated 

 from the lower extremity of reniform . . chasiana. 



