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apex runs slightly sinuous to the liindmiirgin opjiosite the cell, then irregularly 

 straight to the anal angle; cell spot dark brownish; faint indications of a central 

 line shown by dark streaks on the veins. Head, thorax, and abdomen testaceous 

 mottled with darker. Underside the same, but duller. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



One ? from the Khasia Hills. 



Much the smallest of the genus, and distinguished at once by the pale marginal 

 line of the hindwings. 



Mesastrape gen. nov. 



Like Erebomorpha \\\k. iu all respects, but the ? has antennae very well pecti- 

 nated, though not quite so strongly as the c?. The ? of fulgwrita has them quite 

 simple. The wings of Mesastrape are also shorter and broader by comparison than 

 those of Erehoniorpha. 



Tjrjje : M. cansors Butler {Erebomorpha). 



Fulguraria Wlk. is, I have no doubt, also a Mesastrape ; a closely allied species 

 to it, from Thibet, at present undescribed, has pectinated antennae in the ¥ ; the 

 $ of fidguraHa is, I believe, unkno\vn. 



Duliophyle gen. no\-. 



Nearly allied to Xand/ra'nies Moore, but with the forewings broader, and more 

 rounded at the apex, and esf)ecially distinguished by the ? having simple antennae 

 instead of pectinated. 



Type : Dnliophyle agitata Butler (Boarmia). 



Sinameda gen. nov. 



Distinguished from Medanina Moore hy the double toothed jjrominence in the 

 middle of the hindmargin of the hindwings, and also by the much smaller size and 

 more distinct markings. 



Type : Sinameda basistrigaria Moore {Henierojjhila). 



Racotis boarmiaria Guc n. obliterata subs)), nov. 

 Guen^e, in his description oi bnarrtiiaria, says that the dark border of the wings 

 on the underside does not at all jjoints touch the hinchnargin. If the examples from 

 S. India and Ceylon be taken as answering this description, the two forms from 

 X. India must be separated as subspecies. In that which I call obliterata, the dark 

 fascia is more or less broken up by the paler ground colour. This is more especially 

 the case in examples from the Khasia Hills, though in one instance from Bhotan the 

 dark fascia is all but entirely obliterated. 



Racotis boarmiaria Guen. plenifasciata subsp. nov. 

 In the majority of examples from Bhotan and Darjiling the dark border of the 

 imderside of tlie wings is very broad, deep black, and contiguous to the hindmargin 

 throughout ; a single specimen also from the Khasia Hills agrees entirely with these 

 broad banded forms; while in a few cases from Darjiling, though the band is equally 

 broad and black, it has a tendency to become i)aler towards the hindmargin of the 

 hindwings in the neighlx)urlioo(l of the anal angle. 



