STENOSTYGIA. 



Genus STENOSTYGIA, nov. 



Type, S. nigritula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not, extending beyond the frons 

 and moderately scaled ; frons witli truncate prominence with raised edges, 

 its lower edge produced to a beak-like point, a large corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled, the fore tibia3 short 

 ■with large curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing narrow, the 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, 4 shortly stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5566. Stenostygia nigritula. 



TaracJie nigritida, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 514 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax dark cupreous brown mixed with somo 

 grej' ; lower part of frons whitish ; tarsi blacliish ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen greyish suffused with ochreous brown. Foro 

 wing dark cupreous brown mixed with grey ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight black striga from costa ; aiitemedial line 

 black, minutely^ dentate, erect ; orbicular a white point defined 

 by black ; reniform white, constricted at middle aud connected 

 with the costa by a whitish patch ; a rather diffused medial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; 



Fig. 114. — Sienobfygia iiigriiula, ^J. f. 



subterminal line defined bj the area beyond it being whitish, 

 angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, and inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia brown 

 mixed with whitish. Hind wing cupreous brown, the cilia whitish 

 witn a slight brown line near base. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing much more iiniform black- 

 brown, the last with the orbicular more prominent, the subterminal 

 line only defined by slight whitish marks at discal fold and towards 

 tornus. 



Bah. Bombay, Deesa (Nurse), Id', 1 $ ; Ceylon, Pattalam 

 (Pole), 2 $ type. Rv^j. 18-22 millim. 



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