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outwards, then incurved and sinuous and connected by an oblique streak at vein 

 4 with the irregularly waved subterminal line which is indistinctly forked in 

 places. Hindwing semihyaline fuscous brown with the veins darker. 



Habitat.-^- Ceylon, Matele (Pole). Exp. 28 mill. Type— in B. M. 



Section II. Forewing with vein 6 from well below angle of cell. 



656c. Paracossus, furcata. n. sp. (PI. D, f. 30). 



9 . Brownish-grey. Forewing with dark striae, an indistinct oblique brown 

 antemedial line bifurcating and enclosing an eliptical spot at middle ; a medial 

 line bent obliquely outwards from median nervure to submedian fold where it 

 is connected by a streak with the postmedial line which is strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 where it is connected by an oblique spur with the irregularly 

 waved subterminal line which is obscurely furcate in places. Hindwing pale 

 fuscous brown. 



Habitat.— Pegu, Magane. Exp. 34 mill. Type— in B. M. 



Drepanid^;. 



712a. Drepana fulvicosta, Dudgeon, J. Bomb. Soc, XII, p. 652 (1899). 



Almost pure white; frons brown; antennse, tibiae and tarsi tinged with fulvous ; 

 wings irrorated with silvery scales. Forewing with the costal edge pale fulvous ; 

 a very indistinct oblique waved medial line from cell to inner margin and similar 

 postmedial and subterminal lines. Hindwing with indistinct waved postmedial 

 and two subterminal lines. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Manpuri; Bhutan. Exp. 34*38 mill. 



741. Problepsidis albilinea, Warr. Nov. Zool., VI., p. 4. 



£. Antennae strongly laminate ; forewing with vein 11 from the cell. 



Brownish-ochreous irrorated with black ; palpi, frons and fore tibiae and tarsi 

 in front black ; abdomen dorsally suffused with black. Forewing with two 

 highly waved, curved, indistinct fuscous antemedial lines ; a similar medial line ; 

 two very obliquely placed black discoidal points ; a postmedial highly waved line 

 oblique from vein 4 to inner margin before middle ; a similar outer postmedial 

 line with interrupted white strigas on its oblique portion ; a subterminal dentate 

 line with black points on it ; cilia chequered with black. Hindwing with two 

 nearly straight antemedial lines ; the medial area yellow with a black dis- 

 Ooidal point ; a dentate line just beyond middle followed by two indistinct 

 waved lines, then a nearly straight postmedial line ; a subterminal line of small 

 dentate marks • a fine terminal line. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 42 mill. 



744a. Deroca hidda, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), 6, p. 306. 



Differs from hyalina in its small size ; the vertex of head white. Forewing 

 with the antemedial and medial lines angled inwards in submedian interspace. 



Habitat, — Assam, Jaintia Hills. Exp. 32 mill. 



746a. Phalacra multilineata, rename P. acutipennis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. 

 (7), XI., p. 502 (1903). 



747. Phalacra excisa, insert (syn.) P. multilineata, Warr., Nov. Zool., 

 IV., p. 16. 



