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Noreia anacardium sp. n.  
   
Noreia unilineata Walker sensu Holloway, 1976: 58


Noreia anacardium
(paratype)


20-25 mm. This species resembles unilineata in clear grey tone and markings, but it is large (cf. 18-20mm) with a prominent dark tuft of scales on the male hindwing dorsum, though not on vein CuA1. The postmedials are more strongly defined, particularly on the hindwing. The male genitalia have the uncus more or less triangular with a slight apical
spur; the gnathus is distally broad, the rugose zone straight, slightly lobed towards each side. The aedeagus bears a moderate sclerotisation shaped like a cashew nut on the vesica.

Holotype  SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S Exped. 1977- 8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 26, April, G. Api Pinnacles, 1200m, 428545 open scrub, MV, BM geometrid slide 10620.

Paratypes: 1 as holotype. 4 (slide 10621). 3 general data as holotype but sites 14, 22, 24, 25, 27; 1 BRUNEI: 1670m, Bukit Pagon, montane forest, Feb 1982 (Allen & Harman); 3 (slide 8897) SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Park H.Q., 1620m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit. Mus. 1968-186.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. This species was most frequently taken in lower montane forest during the Mulu survey, rarely in the lowlands, and there are three specimens from 1620m on G. Kinabalu and one from 1670m on G. Pagon in Brunei.

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