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F;imily A G A li 1 .S T I D .E. 



Gomis KUSEMTA, Dolman. 

 Eunemia, Dalmaii, Vet. Akad. llaiull. (1824). 



EUSKMIA AIJSTENI, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside black : fore wing with yellowish cream-coloured spots, two being dis- 

 posed within the cell, a round one below it and two beyond, also a submarginal curved 

 series of small spots ; some blnisli-groy scales at end of cell : hind wing oranse-velloAv. a 

 black basal patcli, a broad irregular marginal band, a large geminate spot above anal angle, 

 and a small s])ot at end of cell ; some white apical spots within marginal band. Thorax 

 black, witli a pale lemon-yellow narrow stripe on each side ; abdomen orange-yellow, banded 

 with black. 



Underside as above : middle of thorax orange-yellow ; legs and antennae black. 



Expanse 2| inclies. 



Hah. Kliasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



The nearest ally to this species ia E. vilHcoides, Butler, from Japan. 



NIK^A, nov. gen. 



Fore wing long, narrow ; costa and hind margin nearly straight ; apex and posterior angle 

 slightly pointed ; outer margin convex, very oblique ; discoidal cell dilated its entire length ; 

 discoocllulars bent inwards ; subcostal vein five-branched, second to fifth on a foot-stalk 

 arising from end of cell ; one radial from upper angle of first discocellular ; median vein four- 

 branched, upper three arising from lower angles of cell and contiguous at their base, fourth 

 from half the lengtli of cell. Hind wing trigcmal. apex and anal angle rounded, abdominal 

 margin short ; cell broad ; discocellulars slightly bent inwards ; subcostal vein two-branched 

 at end of cell ; median four-branched, disposed as in fore wing ; one submedian and an inter- 

 nal vein. Body sliort, extending to anal angle ; head small ; palpi projecting beyond head, 

 ascending, sliglitly pilose, broad and flat, tliird joint ratlier long ; legs long, squamose : 

 middle and hind tibiae with short spurs ; antenna? setaceous, thickest at base. 



Type X. longipennis [Hypercoinpa longipennis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iii. p. 655). 

 Hab. Upper Kumaon. 



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