SICCIA. 



391 



Sect. II. {jEmene). Antennte of male with very short branches ending in a^ 

 bristle. 



A. Fore wing with dentate medial line taprohanis. 



B. Fore wing with the medial line reduced to spots guttulosana. 



832. Siccia taprobanis. 



Mmene taproha7iis, Wlk. ii. 542 (1854) ; Moore, Lep. Oeyl. ii. p. 64, pi. 104. 



f. 2 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3t)7.J 

 Panassa cingalesa, Wlk, xxxii. (j07 (1865). 

 Autoceras grammopliora, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 24 (1874). 

 ^mene sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 34, pi. 3. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 367. 



Pale grey ; palpi black ; mesothorax, ends of patagia, tibiae and 

 tarsi with black spots ; abdomen tinged with fuscous, the aual tut't 

 grey. Fore wing with black spot at base of costa, w^ith line from it 

 to submedian fold, angled on median nervure ; a triangular spot on 

 costa before middle with a line from just below it to vein 1, strongly 

 incurved below the cell ; a spot at middle of cell ; a medial line 



angled outwards on sub- 

 costal and median nervures 

 and inwards below the cell ; 

 a discoidal spot ; the post- 

 medial line minutely den- 

 tate, angled at veins 6 and 

 4, bent inwards below vein 

 2 and with some fuscous 



¥\g.m4..-Sicciata'pTobanis,S. \. suffusion between it and 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) the medial line on inner 



area ; a dentate line be- 

 yond it from costa to vein 2, more strongly angled at vein 6 and 

 often indistinct; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous, 

 whitish towards base ; an indistinct discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line more prominent on underside ; cilia whitish. 



The form from Dharmstila and Bombay is rather whiter than the 

 Ceylon form. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 § ; Sikhim ; 

 Assam, Khasis, Nagas ; Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 S , 1 $ ; Ceylon 

 (Templeton), 1 c?, 2 $, ty^pe and type ciyigalesa, Dickoya {Green), 

 1 c? , 2 5 ; Malacca. Exp., S 24, $ 30 millim. Type f sinuata 

 in Coll, Staudinger. 



833. Siccia guttulosana. 



Tospitu guttulosana, Wlk. xxviii. 429 (1863); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 65, 

 pi. 104. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92 ; Kirby, Gat. Het. p. 367. 



Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi and spots on mesothorax 

 black ; fore legs marked with black; abdomen fuscous, whitish below, 

 i'ore wing with subbasal black spots on costa and below cell; an ante- 

 medial spec on costa, a point in cell, a spot below the ceil, and point 



