THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 90S 



Genus Sesamia. 



Type. 

 Sesamia, Guen. Noct. i., p. 95 (1852) . . . . . . vuteria. 



Microsemyra, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 155 . . . . pallida. 



Sect. I. — Antennse of male bipectinate with extremely short branches,, 

 the apex serrate. 



A. (Microsemyra), Hindwing with veins 3'4 strongly stalked in male 

 from cell in female. 

 1950. Sesamia pallida. 



£. Hindwing with veins .3'4 from cell in both sexes. 

 1943. Sesamia inferens. 



Leucania inferens, Wlk. ix. 105 (1856) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 p. 8, pi. 145, f. 3. 

 „ liroscripta, Wlk. ix. 106 (1856). 

 Sesamia albiciliata, Snell, Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii., p. 44, pi. 4, f. 3 

 (1880). 

 „ tranquillaris, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 674. 

 Nonayria yracilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 675. 



,, innocens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 173. 

 Sect. II. — Antennse of male with fasciculate cilia. 



A. Forewing ochreous slightly tinged with rufous . . cretica. 



B. Forewing ochreous slightly tinged with olive . . uniformis. 

 1943«. Sesamia cretica. 



Leucania Tiesperica, Frr. Neue Beitr vi, p. 32, pi. 501, f. 2 (1852). 



nee. Embr. 

 Sesamia cretica. Led. Noct. Eur., p. 225 (1857) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 190. 

 Nonayria cyrnoea, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, p. 559, pi. 8, 



f. 7 and 1867, p. 640, pi. 14, f. 1. 

 Sesamia fraterna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 103 (1882). 

 ,, striata, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 27. 

 Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, sides of frons 

 and fore femora above brownish ; abdomen ochreous white ; forewing pale 

 ochreous tinged with rufous especially on terminal half, the veins with 

 slight pale streaks ; faint fuscous streaks above and below extremity of 

 median nervure, and beyond the cell above and below vein 4 ; sometimes 

 with slight antemedial dark point in submedian fold and postmedial series 

 of points on the veins with points before them in discal and submedian 

 folds ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 with fine pale lines at base and middle. Hindwing pure white. 



Ab. 1. — striata. Forewing with dark streak below base of cell and 

 streaks; on the veins of terminal area . . Asia Minor, Syria, W. 

 Turkestan. 



