X 



2SG NocTun).!-:. 



G570. Giaura robusta. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 32.) 



Selepa rnhusia, Moore, Lcp. Atk. p. 288 (1888) ; Hinpsu. Moths Iiul. ii. 

 p. 381. 



5 . EEead anfl thorax whitish mixed with hrown ; fore tibia) and 

 tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused 

 wit^h brown, the basal crest blackisli. Fore wing whitish tinged 

 with pale brown and suffused in [)arts with blackish especially on 

 apical area ; subbasal line black, curved inwards to base at sub- 

 costal nervure ; a slight black streak below base of cell; antemedial 

 line rather diffused, blackish, indistinct except towards costa, 

 angled outwards at subcostal nervure, then waved ; -a diffused 

 blackish medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, black tilled in with whitish, obliquelj- excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then slightly incurved, some black suffusion beyond it 

 on costal area with a pale point on costa ; subterminal line black 

 defined on inner side by white suffusion and with white suffusion 

 beyond it on inner half, minutely dentate ; a faint dark shade 

 inst befox'e termen and a punctiform terminal line. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown especially on terminal area from apex 

 to vein 2 • the underside white, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. SiKiHM ; Assam, Khasis, 1 § . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Genus PTISCIANA. 



Type. 



Ttisciana, Wlk. xxxii. 912 (1865) seminivea. 



Argyrothr'ipa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 380 (1894) seminivea. 



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

 of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd very long; frons smooth, with tuft 

 of hair above; eyes large, round; antennas of male with fascicles of 

 long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with 

 flattened crest, the metatiiorax with large spreading crest; fore tibia fringed 

 on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibiae moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the costa 

 arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 froui near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 annstomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or stalked ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



6577. Ptisciana seminivea. 



Pfisciava seminivea, Wlk. xxxii. 912 (1865). 



Hymitha lilacina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 289(1888) ; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 380. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi white in front ; tips oftegulae 

 and the patagia white ; pectus and legs white mixed with led- 

 brown ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with brown, the basal 

 crest white at tip. Fore wing silvery white slightly irrorated with 

 red-brown ; a small tuft of white scales at base of median nervure ; 



