GIAURA. 283 



6571 . Giaura sceptica. 



Symitha scepfica, Swiiih. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 461, pi. 27. f. 6 ; Iluipsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 385. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; palpi with black spots 

 at base of joints ; tegulse sometimes with blackifh band before tips, 

 the mesothorax sometimes with pair of blackish spots ; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore and mid tibiee and tarsi with brown mixed, 

 the tarsi riaged with white; abdomen white dorsalh' suffused with 

 brown, fore wing grey-v/hite irroraled and suffused with pale 

 brown ; a black point at base ; a curved series of three subbasal 

 points below costa and in and below cell ; a blackish medial line 

 angled inwards below costa, at median nervure and vein 1, and 

 outwards in cell and submedian fold ; black points on discocellulars 

 and just below angle of cell ; postmedial line whitish defined by 

 slight black points on inner and outer sides and by some fuscous 

 suffusion on outer, oblique from costa to vein 6, angled inwards at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and excurved above inner 

 margin ; a waved blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white slightly 

 tinged with brown at base ; the underside white, the termen 

 suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 



i/«6. Punjab, Almorah (Boi/s), 1 J , 1 2 ; UnvTi^ (Dudgeon), 

 1 c? ; EoMBAT (SivinJioe), 1 J type, N, Kanara, Karwar {T. R. 

 Bell), Id,! $ ; Ceylon, Peradenyia {Green), 1 J, 2 $; Burma, 

 E. Pegu ; Andamans. Ex_p. 20-22 millim. 



6572. Giaura tortricoides. 



Orosa tortricoides, Wlk. xsxiv. 1223 QSGS); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



p. 102, pi. 163. f. 23 ; id. Moths lud. ii. p. 385. 

 Sarrothripa curvilinea, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 93, pi. 10. if. 9 a, i 



(1879) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 369. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing 



Fig. 98. — Giaura tortricoides, S . \, 



brown with slight dark irroration ; a curved black antemedial line 

 from costa to submedian fold, slightly defined on outer side by. 



