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Genus Basilica. 



Type. 

 Basilica, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., ix., p. 209 (1910) chrysosticta. 

 2689«. Basilica chrysosticta. 



Genus Mudaria. 



Type. 

 Mudaria, MoOre, Indian Museum, Notes iii, p. 68 (1893) cornifrons. 

 1825. Mudaria cornifrons. 



Genus Phragmatiphila. 



Type. 



Nonagria, Hiibn. Verz., p. 241 (1827), Nee. Treit., 1825. . . . typ/m. 



Phragmatiphila, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., ix., p. 266 (1910). nexa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the 

 frons and fringed with long hair below ; frons with transverse corneous 

 plate at middle, square in front and concealed by hflir ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennee of male typically serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed with 

 hair only, the pro and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibiee 

 fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and dorsal 

 crest at base only. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form a rather long areole ; 6 from the areole or cell; 

 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3" 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 on a long stalk ; 8 anastomos- 

 ing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Antennee of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



1978a. Phragmatiphila fumea. 



Sect. //--Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the small reniform with dark cen- 



tre and pale annulus open above and below . . leucaneura. 



B. Forewing with the reniform a pale lunule . . grisescens. 

 19786. Phragmatiphila leucaneura. 



Phragtnatipliila leucaneura, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., ix., 

 p. 269, pi. 143, f. 1. (1910). 

 J . Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey : pectus 

 and legs dark brown mixed with greyish, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen greyish suffused and irrorated with dark brown. Forewing 

 greyish ochreous strongly suffused and irrorated with dark brown, the veins 

 of costal area with slight pale streak ; traces of a curved blackish ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform very small, ochreous, defined by black 

 except above and with some black before and between them, the former 

 rather triangular, the latter with black striga in centre ; traces of an oblique 

 blackish medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; an oblique 

 postmedial series of slight black points on the veins from vein 6 to inner 



