NISAGA. — SANGATISSA. 



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Palpi very thickly clothed with hair, slight and porrect. Antennae 

 with the branches very long in male. Fore wing short and broad, 

 the outer margin rounded ; the discocellulars angled below vein 5, 

 which is given off near the angle of cell, 11 arising some way before 

 veins 7, 8, 9, which are stalked. Hind wing with the discocellulars 

 angled below vein 5 ; veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



85. Nisaga simplex, Wilt. Cat. iv, p. 885 ; C. fy S. no. 1438. 



Nisaga modesta, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 373 ; C. 8,- S. 

 no. 1437. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing 

 whitish, yellowish, or reddish brown ; the interspaces with very 



Fig. 36.— Nisaga simplex, tf. \. 



broad dark red-brown streaks, which may be partially or (in the 

 form modesta) quite obsolete. 



Hob. Khasi Hills ; throughout S. India. Exp. 42-50 millim. 



Genus SANGATISSA. 



Sangatissa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 143 (1883). 



Type, S. subcurvifera, "Wlk. 



Range. N.'W. Himalayas ; throughout S. India and Ceylon ; 

 Yunnan. 



Palpi slight, porrect, and thickly clothed with hair. Antennas 

 with the branches very long in the male, short in female. Pore 

 wing produced at apex, the outer angle rounded ; the discocellulars 

 angled below vein 5, which is given off just below the angle ; vein 6 

 stalked with 7, 8, 9, or from the angle, vein 11 arising some way 

 before the angle. Hind wing narrow ; the discocellulars angled 

 below vein 5 : veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



Sangatissa subcurvifera, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 375 ; C. 8? S. no. 



1424 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 134, fig. 6. 

 Sangatissa albipars, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 372 ; C. §• S. 



no. 1422. 



