FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE
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Clostera bramoides sp. n.  


Clostera bramoides (holotype)


17 mm. The forewings are slightly narrower than in bramah but otherwise very similar in facies; the yellow areas are more suffused with brown and there is a generally greyer tone. The male genitalia differ from those of bramah in the more concave ventral margin to the valve within which there is an acute process set on an oblique flange; the transtillae are much larger, curved, acute, with a subsidiary subapical spine; the aedeagus is stouter, less sharply flexed.

Holotype . BRUNEI: 300 m, Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 10.2.80 (Lt. Col. M. G. Allen), BM notodontid slide 1153.

Geographical range. Borneo.

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