G48 NOCXUIDiE. 



Sect. III. Fore wing with the termen hardlj excised below apex and obliquely 

 curved below veiu 3. 



A. (Vterogonia.) Fore wing of male with vein 1 highly sinuous towards 

 termen, the median nervure strongly curved upwards, then bent 

 downwards to lower angle of cell, the neuration distorted near angles 

 of cell ; claspers very large and flattened. 



7101. Pterogonia episcopalis. 



Vterogonia episcopalis, Swinh. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1891, p. 152; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 363. 



S . Head and thorax violaceous grey irrorated with a few brown 

 scales, the vertex of head and teguhe with slight brown streak ; 

 fore tibia3 ferruginous, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale brown with slight whitish segmental Hues, the 

 claspers fringed with rufous hair, the ventral surface whitish 

 except towards extremity. Fore wing violaceous whitish irrorated 



Fig. 265. — Tterogonia episcopalis, (^ . \. 



with a few black-brown scales, the antemedial costal area tinged 

 with rufous, the area to beyond the cell except below vein 1 with 

 numerous striae which are rufous on costal area, blackish along 

 median nervure and in and beyond end of cell; a white subbasal 

 line defined on outer side by rufous from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, whitish, defined on outer side by blackish 

 to vein 1, oblique to below vein 1, then erect, angled outwards 

 below costa and at median nervure and inwards at submedian fold ; 

 a conical silvery patch at end of cell defined by rufous, and with 

 small silver spots defined by rufous beyond its extremity at angles 

 of cell and a small black spot below lower angle of cell ; slight 

 rufous marks above and below base of vein 7 ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, whitish defined on outer side by slight rufous spots from 

 vein tj to 1, somewhat oblique to vein 7 and incurved at discal fold 

 and in submedian interspace ; a subterminal series of small black 

 spots except towards apex and tornus with faint silvery marks 

 before them ; cilia dark brown at tips, Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous, narrowing to 

 tornus ; cilia white except towards apex and tornus. Underside 



