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strise ; a purple-brown maculate band from costa just before apex to inner 

 margin beyond middle ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside bright yellow irro- 

 rated with red-brown points, the postmedial band more prominent, a small 

 discoidal spot. 



Habitat— Sikhim Tibet, Yatung (Hobson). Exp. 40 mill. Type in B. M. 



3183. b. L.OXASP1LATES ATRISQUAMATA, 11. Sp. 



9 . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi except at tips and sides of frons black ; 

 tegulse with dorsal black patch, outer edge of patagia black; meso and 

 metathorax with paired black spots ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen yellow- 

 ish white irrorated with black. Forewing yellow thickly irrorated with 

 small black spots ; small antemedial black spots on costa, median nervure and 

 vein I ; a discoidal spot ; an oblique postmedial series of small dentate black 

 spots somewhat incurved below costa and excurved at middle ; a diffused 

 whitish subterminal band with series of dentate black spots on its outer edge, 

 incurved between veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind 

 wing yellowish white irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; the underside more prominently irrorated with fuscous points, a small 

 discoidal spot and traces of an oblique postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Sikhim Tibet, Yatong (Bingham Hobson). Exp. 38-44 mill. 

 Type in B. M. 



3226. c. Zamakada tenuimargo, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xvii, p. 379 

 (1906). 



£. Head pale reddish brown ; thorax and abdomen brownish white. Fore- 

 wing semihyaline green ; the costa red-brown with darker irroration ; a 

 narrow terminal red-brown band edged by a fine dark line on innerside, ex- 

 panding somewhat from apex to vein 4 and at tornus ; a black discoidal point. 

 Hindwing semihyaline green ; a black discoidal point ; a narrow sinuous red- 

 brown terminal band with fine dark line on its inner edge. 

 Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 30 mill. 



3271. Hyposidra megaspila insert H. circumflexaria, Koll. Hugel's, 

 Kashmir, iv, p. 485 (1842), which has precedence. 

 3278. a. Hytpephyra cyanosticta, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 42). 

 $ . Head and thorax dark red-brown and black irrorated with silvery blue ; 

 basal joint of antennae white above ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown 

 and with slight brown and silvery blue dorsal crests. Forewing with the basal 

 area black-brown irrorated with silvery blue, its outer edge obliquely 

 curved ; the medial area ochreous white irrorated with silvery white and slightly 

 striated with brown ; a reddish discoidal spot ; postmedial points on veins 

 4, 2 and 1 ; a blackish triangular patch on costa beyond middle irrorated with 

 silvery blue ; terminal area red-brown and blackish leaving the apex whitish 

 and with a waved silvery subterminal line on it. Hindwing ochreous white 

 thickly striated with brown and suffused with red-brown towards termen ; a 

 waved silvery subterminal line. Underside yellow striated with fuscous ; fore- 

 wing with discoidal spot, the terminal area fuscous with yellow patch at 



