PTISCIANA. — CLETTITAiaXA. 



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cantemedial line indistinctly double, brownish, oblique to subcostal 

 nervure and bent outs^^ards below the cell, a small tuft of white 

 scales on its outer edge in the cell and another on discocellulars ; 

 postmedial line brownish, strongly bent outwards from below costa 



Fig. 93. — Ftisciana senunivea, (^ . \. 



to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold, outwards at veins 4, -S, 

 then bent inwards and dentate to inner margin, some brown 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white slightly defined 

 on inner side by brown and with brown point at costa, minutely 

 waved, somewhat angled inwards at discal and submedian folds. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown. Underside of both 

 wings red-brown, the costa of fore wing white with some dark 

 points towards apex. 



Hah. SiKHiM ; Travancobe, Pirmad (Mrs. Imrai/),2 $; Crtlon", 

 Pundaloya (Green), 1 (S , Gampola (MacJciuood), 1 c? , Galboda 

 (Mackivood), 1 c? ; Pokneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 c? type. 

 Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Genus CLETTHARINA. 



Clettharina, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 379 (1894; . 



Type. 

 nit ens. 



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

 above vertex of head and fringed with scales in front and behind towards 

 exti-eraity, the 3rd joint short, oblique; frons suiooth ; eyes large, round; 

 antennge of male laminate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests ; fore tibite fringed at sides with long hair, the mid and hind 

 tibise slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the costa strongly arched near base, the apes 

 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 a 

 long narrow areole ; 11 from cell, a medial ridge of raised scales across end 

 of cell and submedian interspace. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell to beyond middle ; a large patch of whitish androcouia on upperside 

 between lower angle of cell and tornus. 



*6578. Clettharina nitens. 



Clettharina nitejis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 379 (1894). 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen silvery grey tinged with red- 

 brown. Fore wing silvery grey tinged with brown, the cell and 

 submedian interspace with a metallic golden gloss to the medial 



