PiECTES. ll-^ 



Hah. Punjab (Jumef!), 1 J , 1 $ , type and type recurrens, Kulu, 

 Sultanpur (G. Young j 1 J, Simla (SiviiiJioe), 2 c? , Dharmsala 

 (I/ocJcing) 3 6, 5 2, Kasauli (Barroiv), 1 J, Allahabad, 2 $, 

 Jubbulpur (i^-. ^«iZer), 2 J , 8 ? , Manpuri, 2 J , 1 $ , Deyra Dhun, 

 1 2 ; SiKHiM (Holier), i J' ; Assam, Khasis, 1 d , 1 $ ; liENWAL^ 

 Calcutta, 1 $ ; BoMBAr, Karachi. E.vp. 28-34 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennje of male bipeclinate with long drooping branclies to Lwo- 

 tliirds length, the apical part ciliated. fNii,v,vj V-. : , n 'A. 



A. {Orthodostera). Fore wing of male with the tornus slighllj dilated and 

 lobed. 



6337. PsBCtes devincta. 



Ahrostola devincta, Wlk, xv. 1781 (1858). 



Orthodostera peculiar is, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 70. 



lugura murina, JJruce, £iol. Centr.-Aiu., Het. i. p. ^26, pi. 30. f. 8 (1889). 



Head and thorax pale rufous tinged with greyish ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen rufous tinged with greyish fuscous, 

 the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown and with slight 

 subventral dark streaks and points. Pore wing rufous with some 

 purplish fuscous at base, on costal area, beyond postmedial line and 

 on middle of terminal area, an oblique grey-white shade from apex 

 to middle of inner margin ; anteraedial line indistinct, double, 

 M aved ; a white point in middle of cell and two rufous discoidal 

 points ; an oblique dark shade from lower angle of cell to inner 



Fig. 44. — Pcectes devincta, (^ , \. 



margin ; a slight dark medial line strongly bent outwards to bej^jud 

 upper angle of cell, then oblique, minutely dentate and closely ap- 

 proximated to the postmedial line, which is double, red, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is obtusely angled 

 outwards, then incurved and slightly angled outwards at vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa and slight black streaks above 

 and below vein 6 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, irregularly 

 waved ; a series of black striae just before terraen and a fine ter- 

 minal line; cilia with two fine dark lines through them. Jlind 

 wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half whitish, the veins 

 with dark streaks; a postmedial black striga at inner margin and 

 two towards tornus ; cilia white with series of brown spots ; the 

 underside whitish, the terminal area suffused with brown, a sinuous 

 dark medial line and double postmedial series of minute streaks on 

 the veins. 



