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5069.— Lepyrodks neptis, should stand as pueritia Cram., the figures on 

 his plate being lettered wrongly and insert Phalena perspicata. Fabr. 

 Syst. Ent., p. 640 (1775), which has priority. 

 5086.— Will stand as Thliptoceras variabilis. 



5088a.— Thliptoceras distictalis.— Hmpsn. P. Z. 8., 1899., p. 179. 

 9 . Head, thorax and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi blackish at sides, 

 whitish below ; wings purplish brown. Forewing with two obliquely placed 

 orange subbasal points and some diffused orange on inner margin ; a white 

 bar across end of cell and spot below end ; the costa orange with 6 or 7 black 

 points on it from above end of cell to the wedge-shaped subterminal band 

 which ends at vein 5 ; termen and cilia orange with purplish points. Hind- 

 wing with some diffused orange on basal area and two spots in cell conjoined 

 to the whitish costal area ; a medial yellow band narrowing to inner margin ; 

 the termen and cilia orange. 

 Habitat.— Burma, Katha. Exp. 28 mill. 

 5117a. Crocidophora exstigmalis, n. sp. 



Mid tibise of male dilated with a groove containing a fringe of long hair ; 

 hind tibiae with the outer spurs half the length of inner ; forewing broad 

 wichout fans of scales. 



Ochreous yellow ; head and base of tegulas rufous ; palpi at base and 

 throat white ; forelegs rufous, the tibise with white bands, the tarsi white 

 except at extremity ; mid tibias and tarsi white ; abdomen with dorsal white 

 segmental lines, the two terminal segments rufous with white spot on anal 

 tuft. Forewing with the costal area rufous ; an interrupted waved dark ante- 

 medial line ; a discoidal bar ; a minutely waved postmedial line, incurved 

 from costa to vein 5, excurved to vein 2, then retracted to below end of cell ; 

 rufous subterminal spots above vein 5 and tornus and a terminal series of 

 points. Hindwing with discoidal bar ; a waved dark line from vein 2 below 

 end of cell to above tornus ; a waved postmedial line from below conta to 

 termen at vein 1, bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 ; a subterminal line 

 from costa to vein 4 and a terminal series of points. 



Habitat. — Burma, Rangoon ; Borneo, Baram (Everett) ; Pulo Laut. 

 (Doherty). Exp. 20 mill. Type— In B. M. 



Genus Pachinoa insert Polygrammodes, Guen. Delt. and Pyr., p. 318 

 (1854), which has priority. Type prunicalis from Brazil. 

 5139a. Polygrammodes mozrulalis, Walk. Cat. XIX. p. 1,000. 

 £. Structure of P. thoosalis but with the branches of basal half of 

 antennae considerably longer. 



Yellow, palpi, above, head, thorax and abdomen dorsally, except at ex- 

 tremity, suffused with purplish brown ; palpi below, pectus, legs and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white ; genital tufts black. Forewing with purplish 

 fuscous patches at base, middle and on costa towards apex, edged with some 

 diffused crimson and leaving some yellow on costal area before and beyond 

 middle and on middle of inner area ; the termen yellow expanding below 

 vein 5, so as to occupy the terminal third ; dentate purplish-red postmedial 



