HIOCODA. 381 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Tana R. (CrawsJiay), 1 5 ; Comoro Is., 

 Mayotta (Meade-Waldo), 1 $ type diplogramma ; Punjab, Simla 

 {Harford), 1 d" , 1 $ , Dharmsala {Hocking), 5 c? , 3 $ type, Kangra 

 Valley {Dudgeon), 1 2 ; Bombay, Kuteh, 'A cJ , Deesa {Nurse), 1 S , 

 Bombay,! c? , Kanara, Gudhali {T. R. Bell), 1 5; Ceylon, 3 c? , 

 1 § ; Burma, Thayetmyo {Watson), 2 $ . ^a?23. 18-20 millim. 



5580. Hiccoda nigripalpis. 



Acontia nigripcdpis, Wlk. xxxv. 1965 (1866) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 318. 

 Phothedes frausa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 446; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 306. 

 Naranga pallida, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 96, pi. 162. f. 13 (1893). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish behind; tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing 

 brownish ochreous, the costal area irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by black points on costa and in cell, the ante- 

 medial line by double black striae from costa and cell; orbicular 

 defined by black on outer side, the reniform on inner side, a grey 

 and fuscous patch between them ; postmedial line almost obsolete 

 on costal half, below vein 4 indistinctly double filled in with 

 whitish, incurved and minutely waved, a fuscous and greyish patch 

 beyond it near tornus ; an oblique diffused blackish fascia from 

 apex ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia greyish mixed with 

 fuscous. Hind wiug greyish suffused with brown, the cilia 

 whitish ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular almost comj)letely defined by 

 black, small, round. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing more irrorated with fuscous especially on 

 costal and postmedial areas, the antemedial line entire, indistinctly 

 double, sinuous, the postmedial line entire, bent outwards below 

 costa and angled inwards in diseal fold. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing bright yellow, the costal area suffused with 

 rufous. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing pale yellow, the costal area tinged with rufous ; 

 hind wing whiter. 



Ab. 5. pallida. Similar but the markings of fore wing obsolescent, 

 the orbicular and reniform represented by a few black scales and 

 without dark patch between them. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu {Crnivsliay), 3 S ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S ; Natal, Durban {Gooch), 1 $; India 

 {Mrs. Hamilton), 1 c? , 1 $ type ; Punjab, Manpuri, 1 $ , Moghal 

 Sarai {Betion), 1 c? , 3 $; Bombay, Katch, 5 5, Deesa {Nurse), 

 1 S , Bombay, 1 $ , Bandra (JaijaJcer), 7 c?, 2 $ , Mhow {SivinJioe), 

 1 c? , 1 2 type frausa ; Madras, Belgaum ( Watson), 6 d" , 2 $ , 

 Gooty {Camphell), 1 c? , Cuddapah {Camphell), 1 $; Ceylon-, 

 Puttalam {Pole), 2 S ■, Colombo {Green), 1 $ type pallida. Eccp. 

 18-20 millim. 



