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44o8a. Ohphalota chlorobasis, n. sp. 

 ^. Head, thorax and abdomen olive green variegated with hkck^ 



Forewing with the basal half olive green 

 irroratcd with a few black scales ;. the 

 outer half fuscous brown with a reddish 

 tinge : a tuft of black scales below cell 

 near, base an oblique sinuous antemedial 

 Omphalota chlorobasis. $ {-. ^j^^j, ^.^^^ . ^ postniedial minutely dentate 



line highly excurved from below costa to vein 2, where it is bent inwards 

 and bounds the olive green area, its outer side defined by ochreous ; cilia 

 reddish and fuscous. Hindwing fuscous with traces of a pale curved 

 postmedial line. 



Bab Hat. -^^imh. Ktj). 21 mm. Tyj^e.—ln coll. Rothschild. 



Sect. I (bis), (Maealla). Palpi of male with the 2nd joint hollowed out 

 to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi, the ord joint short ; antennae 

 with very long thickly scaled process from basal joint. 



44:38^. Macalla hypoxantha, Hmpsn., Trans. Ent. Soo., 1896, 

 p. 465. 



(J. Head and thorax blnck with a few ochreous scales; abdomen 

 wholly black. Forewing fuscous, the areas below basal part of median 

 nervure, at apex and outer angle, tinged with rufous; an indistinct 

 obliquely sinuous antemedial black line ; large tufts of black scales in end 

 ofoellandon discocellulars ; a minutely dentate black postmedial line 

 oblique and defined by grey from costa to vein 4, where it is strongly 

 aucled, and angled inwards below vein 2. Hindwing ochreous, suffused 

 with fuscous, especially on outer half; brownish ochreous below, the 

 costa suffused with black. 



Habitat.-Sikhim, 1,800'. E.vp. 26mm. 



4445a. Macalla hypnonalis, n. sp. 



<J. Maxillary }»alpi tiliform ; antenna with short process from 

 basal joint ; forewing with glandular swelling on costa. 



Head and thorax olive green and black ; abdomen pale red-brown. 

 Forewing with the basal costal and outer areas olive green and black ; 

 the medial area pale red-brown irrorated with dark red-brown and 

 fuscous scales ; an obscure pale waved antemedial line bounding the dark 

 basal area ; a dentate black postmedial line incurved below vein 2 ; a 

 marginal series of black points ; cilia vinous red, Hindwing pale, 



