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5926. Stenorache nubilosa. 



Tarache nubilosa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 315 (1894). 



Head rufous ; thorax white, the tegulae with grey-brown medial 

 line, the patagia with grey-brown spots, the vertex of thorax with 

 grey-brown bars^ legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with grej'-brown. Fore wing white, the 

 costal area suffused with grey-brown to beyond postmedial line ; 

 subbasal line represented by a curved black striga from costa ; 

 anteraedial line almost medial, blackish, angled outwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; medial area suffused with grey-brown except 

 beyond and just below the cell ; claviform a black point ; orbicular 

 rutbus deliiicd by black, small, round; the reniforra a small black 



Fig. 162. — Stenorache nuhilosa, (^ . f. 



lunule ; postmedial line grey-brown defined on outer side by white, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved and sinuous below vein 4, a wedge-shaped grey-brown 

 patch beyond it from costa and sinuous band from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; a faint brown subterminal line exeurved to termen below 

 middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia grey with slight 

 whitish lines at base and near tips. Hind wing grey ; the under- 

 side whitish, the costal area tinged with brown, traces of a dif- 

 fused sinuous subterminal line. 



Huh. Punjab, Simla {Harford), 1 $ type, Kangra Valley 

 {Budrjeon), 1 S- ^^^^..20 millim. 



Genus PSEUDOMICRODES, n. n. 



Type. 



Pseudoviicra, Rebel, Denk. Math.-nat. Akad. Wissen. Ixxi. p. .52 



(I'JOT), nee Biitl. Lep. 1892 deeo'.ora. 



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

 tuiddle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd sliort ; Irons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; ocelli present ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entii-ely with scales and without crests; tibiiE smoothly scaled; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 trom before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle; (3, 7 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 with 

 a minute areole at their base; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 strongly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of disco- 

 celhilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to beyond 

 midille, 



