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Sect. III. Eore wing longer and narrower. 



1703. Hadena pannosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 345 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 147, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 2059. 

 Apamea sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 109 ; C. 8f 8. no. 2061. 



Dark brown. Tore wing with the snbbasal, ante- and post- 

 medial double lines pale-centred, the second highly angled near 

 inner margin, and with ochreous patches before it below the cell ; 

 the orbicular and renif orm greyish ; the claviform small ; a diffused 

 pale patch from beyond the postmedial line to outer angle ; a 

 prominent pale dentate apical patch. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia 

 pale with a line through them. 



The form siJckima is rather redder ; the claviform larger ; no 

 pale patch beyond the postmedial line, and the apical patch 

 obsolescent. 



Bab. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 40-50 millim. 



Genus SEMIOPHORA. 



Semiophora, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Hausl. ii, p. 138 (1829). 

 Tseniocainpa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii, p. 477 (1839). 



Type, S. gothica, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. N. America, Europe, Japan, N.W. Himalayas. 



Eyes hairy ; head deeply inserted in thorax ; proboscis fully 

 developed ; palpi porrect, extending beyond the f rons, clothed with 

 long hair below, and the third joint prominent ; antennae bipecti- 

 nated in male ; thorax evenly rounded ; abdomen without tufts ; 

 tibiae without spines, and clothed with long hair. Eore wing 

 rather long and narrow. 



1704. Semiophora orthosioides, Butt. III. Het. vii, p. 56, pi. 128, fig. 1. 



Palpi very long ; branches of antennae long in male. Head and 

 thorax clothed with grey and dark 

 scales ; abdomen pale brown. Eore 

 wing pale brown irrorated with dark 

 scales ; traces of subbasal and ante- 

 medial and a more distinct curved 

 medial line ; a black spot at lower 

 Fio-. 124. angle of cell ; a pale submarginal line 



Semiophora orthosioides, <$ . \. with some dark suffusion beyond it. 



Hind wing fuscous. 



Hal. Mandi, N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 30 millim. 



1705. Semiophora ferrosticta, n. sp. 



c? • Grey ; antennae and abdomen tinged with rufous. Eore 

 wing slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a fuscous streak on basal 

 inner area ; traces of a sinuous antemedial line ; the orbicular and 

 reniform large and indistinct, with ferruginous and dark brown 



