TARDASENA. 24o 



Genus PARDASENA. 



Type. 



Vardasena, Wlk. xxxv. 1730 (1866) rxselioides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- 

 out crests ; tibias slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Fore wing with tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3, rarely given 

 off just before termen ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male on underside with patch of black androconia in 

 and below cell; hind wing with black androconia on upper and 

 under sides of costal area to beyond middle, the tornus contorted 

 and with tufts of black hair in the cilia on underside, 



6511. Pardasena virgulana. 



SarrothrijM virgulana, Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi'i. p xvii (1880) • 

 Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 369. v ^ . 



Giaura nigriscrvpta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 542 (1905). 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; abdomen white 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a black streak on subcostal nervure 

 to the obliquely curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line almost medial, black defined on inner side by 

 white, excurved at subcostal nervure aud below the cell, angled 

 inwards at vein 1, two slight black streaks or a black fascia 



Fig. 87. —Pardasena virgulana, (5 . |. 



between it and postmedial line above submedian fold ; postmedial 

 line black slightly defined on outer side by white, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excurved to" 

 vein 4, then incurved and again slightly excurved at vein 1, the 

 veins beyond it slightly streaked with black ; subterminal line 

 black, punctiform, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind 

 wing white, the veins towards termen and the termen from 

 apex to vein 2 tinged with brown in female. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru {Betton), 1 c? , 1 $ , Kikuyu 

 (Orawshay), 1 $ type nic/riscrijjta, Sabaki Valley (Gregory), 2 2 ; 

 Transvaal (C/io?mZe^), 1 5 ; Natal, Durban (ia(/7i), 2 $ ; Mada- 

 gascar, type t in Coll. Mabille. E.iy. 18-24 millim. 



