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apex ; fore tibicT thickly fringed with hair. Head fuscous and 

 ochreoiis ; thorax and abdomen Cusgous, the latter obscurely ochreous 

 towards base. Forewing fusoous-brown with metallic reflections ; 

 an obscure yellow subbasal Hue and another yellow line on inner 

 side of the sinuous black antemedial line which is angled at middle ; 

 a yellow mark on discocellulars, with a Iilack spot on it ; a large 

 yellow patch below end of cell, bounded by the yellow postmedial line 

 which is angled inwards below costa and sharply outwards on vein 

 3, then retracted to below end of cell ; diflt'used leaden-grey on 

 marginal area ; cilia yellowish. Hindwing with the base dark, followed 

 by a large very irregular yellow area with the black discocellular 

 spot on it, and conjoined below the cell to the yellow postmedial 

 line which is defined on inner side by a black line and bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, with a wedge-shaped dark patch in its sinus ; 

 diffused leaden-grey on marginal area ; cilia yellowish. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Ei'p. 22 mm. Tyj^e. — In coll. Rothschild. 

 4804a. Pagyda argyritis, n. sp. (pi. A, f. 26). 



$. Silvery white, sometimes tinged with i)alo yellow ; abdomen 

 barred with orange, a fine black line before anai segment. Forewing 

 with orange spot on base of inner area ; a curved orange antemedial 

 line ; a black speck at upper angle of cell and orange discocellular 

 line ; a postmedial orange line sending a tooth inwards above vein 5, 

 at vein 2 retracted to below end of cell and expanding into a spot 

 below vein 2 ; a highly dentate orange submarginal band and fine black 

 marginal line. Hindwing with obliquely-curved medial orange line 

 expanding into a spot below the cell ; a postmedial orange patch 

 between veins 6 and 2 ; a submarginal line commencing with a spot at 

 vein 6 and ending with a spot at vein 2 ; a fine marginal black line. 



Hahkat. — Sikhim (Pilcher); Bhutan (Dudgeon). E.vp, 22 n\m. 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



48046. Pagyda amphisalis, Wlk., Cat., xviii, p. 661, 



Differs from P. discolov in being bright orange-yellow as in P. hoty- 

 dalis ; the transverse lines rather broader. 



riab'dat. — Japan ; China ; Khasis. Exp. 24 nma. 



485 1«. NosoPHORA DisPiLALis, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind., iv, p. 288. 



Nosophora chironalis, Led., Wiener Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 407, pi. 14, 

 f. 12 {7iec. Wlk.). 



