TYCRACONA. — CRANIOPHORA . 



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and with slight dark streak in submedian fold from beyond it to 

 termen ; an indistinct rather diffused brown subterminal line 

 excurved at middle and with slight dark streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces ; a terminal series of slight dark striae with dark marks 



Fig. 15. — Tycracona ohliqua, ($ . \. 



beyond them on the cilia. Hind wing greyish brown with very 

 indistinct diffused subterminal band ; the underside white slightly 

 tinged with brown, a blackish discoidal bar, minutely waved brown 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 5, and brown terminal 

 band narrowing to apex and vein 1. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Dudgeon, P'dclier), 2 (^ ; Bhutan (Dudgeon)^ 1 $ ; 

 Assam {Badgley), 2 d , 2 $ . Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Genus CRANIOPHORA. 



Type. 



Craniophora, Snell. Vlind. van Ned. p. 262 (1872) ligudri. 



Bisulcia, Chapman, Ent. Rec. i. p. 28 (1890) ligustri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae simple and laminate in both sexes ; 

 thorax clothed with scales mixed with some hair, the prothorax without crest, 

 the metathorax with divided crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of crests and rough hair at base. Fore wing with 

 the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins ?> 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (3 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 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. Fore wing with prominent black fascia in submedian fold 



extending to termen. 



a. Fore wing with the claviform large, defined by black nigrivitta, 



h. Fore wing with the claviform absent fasciaia. 



B. Fore wing without prominent black fascia in submedian fold. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish grey. 



a^. Fore wing with oblique white mark in submedian inter- 

 space before medial line albonigra. 



h^. Fore wing without white mark in submedian interspace 



before medial line prmclara. 



b. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish fuscous imbilata. 



c. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- white, 



a}. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly tinged with 



b ro wn pontica. 



b^. Hind wing uniform brown paragrapha. 



d. Fore wing red-brown with white patch beyond the cell ... iigustri. 



e. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with black-brown obscura. 



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