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the termen oblique and straight, not curved; antennae of $ annulate and ciliated; hindwing with 3, 4 and 
6, 7 stalked. Type A. acuminata Hmps. 
A. acuminata Hmps. Forewing pale ochreous tinged with reddish brown; costa browner; the veins acuminata. 
of costal area with slight pale streaks; a diffuse brown streak along median vein to beyond end of 
cell, meeting an oblique brown fascia from termen below apex, with a diffuse pale streak above it from 
apex; a white streak in cell fold from middle of cell to the oblique subterminal fascia; a fine brown 
terminal line; fringe white, with fine brown line at middle, mixed with brown at tips; hindwing pure 
white. Found in the Nilgiri Hills, Madras. 
74. Genus: Nesamia Gum. 
Tongue aborted, minute; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair above; palpi obliquely porrect, the second 
segment well fringed in front with long hairs, the third short and smooth; thorax and abdomen without 
crests; forewing with apex blunt, the termen evenly rounded; hindwing with veins 6, 7 stalked, 3, 4sometimes 
stalked. Larva feeding in stems of Gramineaceae. Type S. vuteria Stoll. 
Sect. I. Antennae of with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 
S. grisescens Warr. Forewing dull cinereous dusted with darker; the two folds and the inner grisescens. 
margin dull flesh-coloured ochreous, the streaks reaching subterminal line; inner line marked only by a dark 
spot on submedian fold; outer line lunulate dentate, very obscure, the tooth on submedian fold marked 
by a dark spot; a blackish spot on discocellular and another beyond cell; hindwing dirty whitish, greyer 
towards apex and termen. New Guinea. The $ is always larger than the <$, but the $$ vary much in size. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia; veins 3, 4 
of hind wing not stalked. 
S. albicostata Lower (21a). Forewing pale ochreous, with some fuscous irroration; the submed- atbicostata. 
ian interval sprinkled with black scales; costal area white; hindwing pure white. Victoria, Australia. 
S. inferens Walk. (= proscripta Walk., albiciliata Snell., tranquillaris Btlr., gracilis Btlr., inno- inferens. 
cens Btlr.) (21 a). Forewing ochreous faintly tinged with rufous; a diffuse rufous shade along median 
vein and thence to termen between veins 5 and 3; in some cases with an inner dark dot on submedian fold 
and an outer row of dark vein points, doubled on the folds; a fine brown terminal line; fringe ochreous white; 
hindwing pure white. Larva cylindrical, smooth shining, flesh-coloured, with a few pale hairs; tapering 
at both extremities, the segments broadly and shallowly pitted; head ferruginous; the mouth black; spiracles 
black; dorsal vessel dark; bores in the stems of the .sugar cane. Throughout India, Ceylon, Burma, the Anda¬ 
mans, the Malay peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, the Philippines, Formosa: also common in Japan and China. 
Sect. IV. Antennae o f $ with sessile fascicles of cilia: neither 3,4 nor 
6, 7 stalked in hind wing s. 
S. cretica Led. (= hesperica Frr. nee Rmbr., cyrnaea Mab., fraterna Moore). (Vol. 3, pi. 48 g). cretica. 
Forewing pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous especially in terminal half; the veins paler; faint fus¬ 
cous streaks above and below extremity of median vein and beyond the cell above and below vein 4; 
sometimes with dark dot in submedian fold at place of inner line and with an outer series of vein points 
doubled on the folds; terminal line fine and brown; fringe rufous ochreous with pale lines at base and 
middle; hind wing pure white; in the ab. striata Stgr. (hitherto only found in palearctic localities) the striata. 
forewing has a dark streak below base of cell and streaks on the veins of terminal area. Larva ochreous 
whitish; the head rufous; spiracles black; boring in stems of maize. Essentially a palaearctic species, found 
also in N. India, in the Punjab and Sikkim. 
S. uniformis Dudg. (21 b). Forewing olive ochreous sparsely irrorated with dark brown; a uniformis. 
