Volume 1

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson.

Date:
1892-1896
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Moths. Vols I-IV / by G.F. Hampson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brown and with black towards outer margin ; some black stiiffffi on costa, and blackish streaks and lunulas towards outer margin • a doubly curved pale postmedial line; pale lunulate submarginai and marginal lines. Hind wing smoky black, with a darker spot at end ot cell; indistinct waved submargiual and marginal pale mes. Underside pale, with a prominent black lunulate band to both wings. Mab. Sikhim, Naga Hills. Exp. 96 millim. Genus HAPIGIA. Hapigia, Guen. Met. ii. p. 376 (1852). Type, B. nodicomis, Gruen., from S. America. Range. S. America; Madras. _Palpi_upturned, the second joint fringed with very long hairs third joint naked. Antennae ciliate. Fore wing long, the apex acute, the outer margin very obliquely rounded; veins 7, 8 9 10 s a ked; no areole. Hind mng with vein 5 absent ; 6 and 7 sialked; 8 connected by a bar with 7. , uu / The typical section has the third joint of palpi free and vein 6 ot fore wmg from angle of cell. Sect II. Palpi with the hair on 2nd joint extending to apex of drd]omt. -Fore wmg with vein 6 from above angle of cell. 212. Hapigia obliqua, Wlk. Cat. xxxiil, p. 766; C. 8^ S. no. 2335. $ . Head and thorax pale chestnut-brown; apex of palpi black. Fore wing pale chest„„t-br„™, with lo.r ver, oblique iodistinot