FAMILY NOTODONTIDAE
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Porsica circumducta Gaede  
    Gargetta circumducta
Gaede, 1930: 616.
    Porsica circumducta Gaede; Kiriakoff 1968: 27.


Porsica circumducta


Diagnosis.
The forewing costa is broadly mottled brown with a triangle extending dorsad to enclose the pale grey reniform. The rest of the fore-wing is pale grey. No other species has such an extensive area of pale grey.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference. A single male has been taken in Brunei, at 300 m in mixed dipterocarp forest, Ulu Temburong.

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