THUMATSA. GKAPXASURA, .421 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons, 

 which is clothed with rough hair ; antenn£e of male bipectinate, with short 

 stitf' branches dilated at extremity ; tibise witli the spurs moderate ; abdomen 

 clothed with rough hair. Fore wing rather short and broad ; vein 2 from 

 middle of cell ; 8 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; o from near middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from towards end of cell. 



A. Wings orange inconstans. 



B. Wings grey-brown ., fuscesceiis. 



890. Thumatha inconstans. 



Bictenus inconstans, Butl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 846, pi. xlii. f. 5; 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, sometimes some orange 

 hair on vertex of head ; the base of abdomen with some orange hair ; 

 anal tuft orange ; wings orange-yellow, clothed with hair-like scales. 

 Fore wing with a little black suffusion at base ; the costa and inner 

 margin black ; a black discoidal spot ; a terminal black band with 

 minutely dentate inner edge. Hind wing with fuscous discoidal 

 point. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal half only of costa and inner 

 margin black ; no terminal black baud. 



Hab. N^ASA-LAND, Mt. Kasuugu 7425 ft. {Craiushay), 2 cJ, type. 

 Ex;p. 20 millim. 



891. Thumatha fuscescens. 



Thiomatha fuscescens, Wlk. xxxv. 1901 (1866) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



p. 86, pi. 158. f. 18; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 122; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 364. 

 Nudaria infantula, Saalm. Ber. Seiick. Ges. 1879, p. 261; id. Lep. Madag. 



p. 168, pi. 6. f. 81 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 361. 

 Scaodora rava, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1079 (1890) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 348. 



Grey-brown ; fore and mid tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish above. Fore wing with 

 blackish sutt'usion at base of costal area ; 

 traces of an antemedial line angled outwards 

 on subcostal and median nervures ; a prom- 

 inent black discoidal spot ; a fuscous patch 

 on costa before apex ; a subtermiual series 



, of short dark streaks on the veins, the one 



Fig. 332. — Ihumatha - c i- j.u £ i. 



fJcescens, J. \. (From «ii ^^f 5 further from termen. 

 Moths Ind. -vol. ii.) Hah. W. Afeica, Ogove It. ; Madagasgak; 



Assam (Hartert) ; Ceylon {Green\ 1 S ; 

 S.E. Borneo {Doherty), 1 6 ; Queensland, Moreton Bay {Diggles), 

 2 S , type, Brisbane {Lucas), Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus GRAPTASURA, nov. 



Type, G. polygraphM. 



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

 antennae of female with bristles and cilia ; (mid and hind legs wanting). Fore 

 wing with yein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 5 from 



