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dentate and angled inwards in discal fold ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Underside fuscous with the pale areas whitish. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Khasis ; Ceylon ; Penang ; Borneo. Exp. 28-32 mill. 



B. coremiaria, Hmpsn., is a distinct species. 



3404. Boarmia acaciaria del. Boarmia cornaria, invectaria, properata, 

 eoncursaria and contectaria. 



Sect. (Carecomotis). Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to 

 two-thirds, the apex ciliated, of female with short branches ; hind tibiaa 

 dilated ; forewing with fovea. 



3404. a. Boarmia cornaria, Guen. Phal., 1, p. 254 (1857). 

 Boarmia invectaria, W Ik., xxi, 375 (i860). 

 Boarmia proper ata, W1k., xxi, 376 (J 860). 



ft. Head, thorax and abdomen brown mixed with grey and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; abdomen with subdorsal series of black segmental bars. Forewing 

 grey suffused with brown and striated with fuscous ; a blackish antemedial 

 line slightly excurve i from below costa to submedian fold, then oblique ; an 

 elliptical discoidal spot defined by fuscous, placed on a minutely waved medial 

 line which is obliquo below the cell ; postmedial line minutely waved, very 

 oblique below discal fold ; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line with 

 slight fuscous streaks before it in the interspaces ; the terminal area with 

 slight pale patch at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind- 

 wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black, the basal half rather 

 paler: subbasal and medial slightly waved lines; an elliptical discoidal spot 

 defined by fuscous ; postmedial line minutely dentate, exourved ; subtermiual 

 line indistinct, waved, whitish, defined on inner side by slight fuscous marks ; 

 a terminal series of small tdack lunules. Underside white, the lines fine, the 

 black discoidal spots prominent ; forewing with large fuscous apical patch 

 with whitish apical blotch and small fuscous patch on termen below middie ; 

 hindwing with fuscous subterminal patch between veins 7 and 4. 



9. More suffused with fuscous; abdomen wiih the first two segments 

 dorsally blackish ; wings with the lines stronger ; forewing with the discoidal 

 spot larger and connected with costa. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Manpuri ; Bombay, Poona ; Ceylon, Trincomali ; Burma, 

 Thayetrayo. Exp. $ 34, 9 38 mill. 



3404. b. Boakmia decisakia, Wlk., xxxv, 1589 (1866). 



Head, thorax and abdomen wbitish mixed with fuscous; antennae fuscous; 

 abdomen with paired dorsal series of blackish points. Forewing wbitish 

 irrorated and minutely striaed with fuscous, the medial area paler; an 

 indistinct antemedial line arising from a blackish mark on costa, angled at 

 submedian fold, then oblique ; two blackish marks on medial part of costa ; 

 an elliptical black discoidal spot ; postmedial line minutely dentate, oblique 

 below vein 4 and with an indistinct diffused brownish line beyond it ; an 

 indistinct somewhat dentate brownish subterminal line with fuscous patches 

 on it ao costa and discal fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 



