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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    NISAOA.—SANGATISSA. 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 ano-led below vein 5 ; veins 6 and 7 stalked. 85. Nisaga simplex, Wlk. Cat. W, p. 885; C. ^ S. no. 1438. Nisaga modesta, Moore, Trans. JEnt. Soc. 1884, p. 373; C. 8r S. no. 1437. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown. Tore wing whitish, yellowish, or reddish brown; the interspaces with very Fig. 36.—Nisaga simplex, \. broad dark red-brown streaks, which maybe partially or (in the form modesta) quite obsolete. Sab. Khasi Hills ; throughout S. India. Ex^y. 42-50 millim. Genus SANGATISSA. Sangatissa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. ]43 (1883). Type, S. subcurvifera^ Wlk. Range. N. W. Himalayas; throughout S. India and Ceylon; Yunnan. Palpi slight, porrect, and thickly clothed with hair. Antennae with the branches very long in the male, short in female. Eore 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. 86. Sangatissa subcurvifera, wik. 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.