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33. Poecilalcis (?) deceptrix sp. nov. 



Forewings : ocbreous, almost wholly suffused with fulvous and fuscous, and with 

 blackish sfrigae and clouds ; first line hroad and pale, edged with darker, sharply 

 angled below costa, then oblicjue and straight to inner margin close to base; a large 

 diffuse blackish cell-spot, followed by a curved and indistinct dark central line; outer 

 line pale ocbreous, tinged with fulvous externally and edged vrith darker internally, 

 straight from costa to inner margin, nearly paralh'l to hindmargin ; submarginal line 

 fine, white, irregularlv dentate and wavy, forming a larger sinus opposite the cell, filled 

 in with blackish and bent outwards to anal angle. 



Ifindwinr/s : paler, the costal region ochreous ; a large dark cell-spot, with a 

 dark line from it to inner margin ; a broad pale line edged internally with darker, 

 corresponding to the outer line of forewings ; a dark wavy pale-edged submarginal 

 line, with a black blotch opposite the cell; fringes of both wings dark, with their 

 base and tips pale ; hindmargin of liindwings crenulate from apex to vein 4. 



Head, front of thorax, and liase of patagia olive-tawny ; tops of shoulders, the 

 ends of the patagia, and the metathorax dark fuscous; basal segment of abdomen 

 with a white ring ; rest of abdomen mottled fuhous and fuscous. Underside pale 

 straw-colour, mottled with fuscous ; both wings with large black cell-spot ; forewings 

 with hindmarginal area dark fuscous, excepit a spot at apex and in middle ; hindwings 

 with a black blotch in middle of hindmargin. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One J, two 5 J , from Sikkim, March and April 1889 (J. G. Pilcher leij.). 



Resembles F. atrostipata Jloore, but easily distinguished by the different direc- 

 tion of the first line. The neuration also is different, and appears variable. In all 

 three 10 and 11 are stalked together, and 11 anastomoses with 12 ; in one ? 9 is also 

 stalked with 10 and 11, and afterwards anastomoses with 8 ; in the other, 7, 8, and 9 

 are stalked; while in the J 9, 10, and 11 are stalked together, 9 not anastomosing 

 with 7 and 8, but separating from 10 near the costa. 



SriiFAMiLY SEMIOTHISINAE. 

 34. Hypepliyra subangulata sji. nov. 



Forewings: rufous ochreous, with darker rufous stri-ae and dusted with silvery 

 scales; the basal and marginal areas dull dark brown; the lines ferruginous; first 

 line curved and interrupted at one-fourth ; second at three-fourths, distinct and 

 irregularly wavy, preceded by a rusty shade ; discal spot small, ferruginous ; marginal 

 space dark leaden-brown, with a dull ferruginous patch near costa and a small 

 brighter spot in tlie middle ; fringe concolorous with this marginal area. 



Hindwings : the same, but with only the extreme base dark, and the basal two- 

 thirds more den.sely striated with fuscous. 



Head and thorax dark bi'own ; face and abdomen rufous. Inderside yellow, with 

 the marginal area dark leaden colour, with a yellowish patch at middle. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One ? from Sikkini, May 1889 (.1. G. Pilcher leg.). 



Distinguished from the other two species of the genus by the blunt angulation 

 of the hindwings. 



