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line defined by whitish on outer side and slightly excurved from below costa 

 to vein 3 ; cilia blackish with a pink line through them. Hind wing with black 

 antemedial and medial lines, the former angled on median nervure, the latter 

 at vein 2 and defined by whitish on outer side ; cilia blackish with a pale line 

 through them. Underside of wings ochreous yellow. 



Habitat.-— Ceylon, Maturatta (Pole). Exp. 26 mill. Type—In B. M. 



4545a. Stemmatopiiora minoraljs, n. sp. 



Head and thorax pale yellowish brown irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen 

 pale tinged with rufous, and irrorated with fuscous and with pale segmental 

 lines. Forewing pale yellowish brown irrorated with rufous and fuscous ; a 

 sinuous black antemedial line angled outwards in submedian fold and defined 

 by g re y on inner side ; a black discoidal spot ; a black postmedial line excurved 

 beyond cell and above inner margin and defined by grey on outer side ; a 

 black terminal line. Hindwing brownish grey irrorated with dark brown ; a 

 sinuous dark postmedial line defined by grey on cuter side ; a black terminal 

 line. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Peradeniya (Green), Colombo (Mackwood). Exp. 18 mill. 

 Type—In B. M. 



4557a. Herculia medialis, n. sp. 



ft. Olive green tinged with rufous. Forewing with the ante- and postmedial 

 lines white, the former slightly sinuous, the latter strongly angled outwards 

 at vein 4, the medial area suffused with dark brown especially towards the 

 lines ; a dark discoidal point and a series of white points on medial part of 

 costa ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia black irrorated with white and 

 with a black line through them. Hindwing with curved diffused medial 

 fuscous line ; a terminal series of black stria? ; cilia black irrorated with 

 white and with white line through them. 

 9. More strongly tinged wiih rufous. 



Habitat— Simla (Nurse). Exp. $ 29, $ 24 mill. Type— In B. M. 



Genus : Lamacha. 



Lamaclia, Wlk., XXVII., 8 (1865). 



Diboma, Wlk., XXVII., 8. 



Methora, Wlk., XXXIV., 1517 (1S65). 



Type — L. bilineolata Wlk., from China. 



Range. — China, Assam, Borneo, Java. 



Palpi porrect, down curved, extending about three times length of head 

 and fringed with hair above and below ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; 

 proboscis well developed ; frons with a sharp tuft ; antennas almost simple ; 

 tibias slightly hairy. Forewing broad, the costa arched at base then nearly 

 straight, the apex rectangular ; the termen excurved at middle ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4*5 separate at origin ; the discocellulars highly 

 curved, 6 from upper angle; 7 from 8 before 9; 10*11 from cell; male 

 with a glandular swelling at base of costa below, the retinaculum hairy 

 Hindwing with veins 2 and 3 from near angle of cell ; 4'5 from aDgle ; 

 6*7 stalked. 



