MESOLIA. — SUEA.XTHA. 



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4218. Mesolia pandavella, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888. p. 282 ; 



C. fy S. no. 4724. 



3 . Dark reddish brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 



with diffused whitish fascia 



from base below median 



nervure to outer margin ; a 



brown medial line with white 



inner edge, oblique from 



costa to vein 4, then angled 



and dentate inwards on 



vein 2 ; a white line across 

 Fig. 19. — Mesolia pandavella, rf. f. ■ i -i j ,i 



° r . u 2 apical area angled on the 



margin at vein 6, then dentate ; a sinnous white line across apex ; 



cilia with a dark line through them from costa to the indentation. 



Hind wing whitish. 



$ browner, with hardly a trace of the pale fascia on fore wing. 



N. Indian specimens are paler and more rufous than those from 

 Cevlon. 



Hah. Dharmsala ; Lahore ; Trichinopoly ; Ceylon. Exp., 6 18, 

 $ 22 millim. 



Genus SUEATTHA. 



Surattha, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 75 (1863). 

 Calarina, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1769 (1866). 



Type, S. invectalis, Wlk. 



Range. India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; Australia ; Africa. 



Palpi porrect and thickly scaled, extending about one and a half 

 times length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; frons 

 with a conical process ; antennae of male bipectinated, usually with 

 long branches ; tibiae with the spurs long, the outer spurs about 

 two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 usually on a long 

 stalk; 6, 7 and 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 5 absent ; 6 obsolescent from above middle of disco- 

 cellulars, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 stalked. 



4219. Surattha invectalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 76; C. fy S. no. 4723. 

 Pindicitora thysbesalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 135 ; C. $■ S. no. 4718. 

 Scopula nigritascialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1472 ; C. fy S. no. 4155. 

 Calarina albirenella, Walk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1770; C. fy S. no. 4721. 



Greyish ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing with 

 indistinct pale waved antemedial line, with fuscous suffusion on the 

 edges ; similar more distinct medial and postmedial lines, the latter 

 angled on vein 5, the former with dentate dark marks on its outer 

 edge, the latter on its inner ; a white spot beyond discocellulars ; 



