( 5ao ■; 



luva limited liy it grey ; a rather shar|ily delineil urey sulimargiiuil band from SO' 

 to tip of .SM-, nearly slniiglit, not midulate. 



S. Antenna long. Tenth sternite with jiarallel sides. Process of liar])e rather 

 acute distally (PI. XLVIII. f. 23), resembling a hand witli the thumb lying against 

 tlie luicfinger and tie otiier lingers curved back- and upwards. rcnis-shcatli 

 (I'l. Ii\'. f. r.», : left lobe shorter tlian in all the other species. 



?. Vaginal i)late resembling that of (iiirfiis. 



Larva not known. 



Hub. Nortli India ; Ja])an. 



In the Triug Museum IG cJc?, 1 ? from : Kumaon ; Kulu ; .Sikhiiu ; Phutau. 



44(i. Acosmeryx sericeus. 



*I'liiliim/ipliix serireiix Walker, L/xi Lpji. lux. II. .1/. viii. p. LSI, n. 1.3 (1850) (Silhet ; partial: — 

 Mus. Hrit.) ; Moore, in Horaf. & Moore, Cut. I.cn. Iii<. M'lx. ll.l.C. i. p. 271. n. 025 (1H57) 

 (Silliet ; Darjiling) ; id., Proc. Znol Hm: L„wl. p. 07.". (I«ii7) (Silhet). 



*.\rn.imir!/.r anreoi/h'.f Boisdiival, Spec. Gen. Up. 11(1. i. p. '2.\Q. n. 2 (1876) (Borneo: Philipp . 

 N. India ; partim > ;— coll. Cliarle.s Obertliui). 



Arnxmeryj- .■<er/cn(.-<, Butler, Tr,ni.-<. Zm,L Soc. Loml. ix. p. r44. n. 2 (1877) (Silhet) : id., /IIk^I,: 7'////. 

 Spenm. Lep. llet. B. .U. v. p. 1. t. 70'. f. 2 (1881) : Cot. & Swinh., Cat. M„lh-< Iiul. i. p. 8. n. 45 

 (1887) (Silhet; Sikhim); Swinh., Cat. Lep. Ilet. Mus. Or. i. p 8. n. U (1892) (As.=am): Semp., 

 Schnu'lt. PhiJipp. ii. p. 393. n. 20 (1896) (Luzon, vii.). 



Acosmeryx ser/cea, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Jfef. i. p. 049. n. 7 (1892) (N. India). 



Acosraeryx cinceii, Hampson, in Blanf., Fduna Brit, hid , Motli.i i. p. 81. n. 1 15 ( 1892) (partim). 



Acosmeryx aiicen f. sertceti, Dudgeon, Jniini. Boiuhuy N. H. Soc. xi. p, 4ll9. n. 115 (1898) (Sikhim, 

 Bhutan, 2000 ft., vi. viii.). 



c? ? . Metauotum chocolate-tawny at sides ; chestnut-brown markings of 



abdominal tergites rather prominent. Forewing, above, much shaded with 



violaceous grey, the brown lines more prominent than in the other sjjecies ; first 

 discal line heavy, straight from 11^ to inner margin, anteriorly merged together with 

 an oblique band which reaches distal margin just before hinder angle ; grey sub- 

 marginal baud ending at or just beyond R^ ; distal margin dentate.- Hindwing : 



an indistinct brown discal line, followed by a likewise indistinct ]ialer band, which is 

 slightly tawny. 



UiuJerside of abdomen, of nearly the whole hindwing, and disc of forewing 

 along marginal band bright tawny ; white scaling at costal margins between the 

 lines consjiicuous. 



S . Antenna shorter than in )}ii(/a, agreeing with those of all the following 

 s])ecies. Tenth sternite (PI. XLIV. f. .23) widest in middle. Process of harpe 

 (PI. XLVIII. f. 20) distally more rounded than in naga, the ventral ridge higher 

 and not dentate. Left |)rocess of penis-sheath broad (PI. LV. f. 20). 



? . Not dissected. 



Early stages not kuown. 



Ilab. North India to the Philipjiines. 



In the Tring Mt^seum 12 S S from : Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Khasia Hills. 



447. Acosmeryx omissa spec. nov. 



losmenjc aiiceh, Hampson, in Blanf., Fmiiia Ihit. Lul., MutJis i. p. 81. n. 115 (18;i2) (partim) 



cj?. Easily confounded with srr/cfus ; nppersicle far more uniform in colour. 



mnch less variegated with grey and chestnut. Forewing : antemedian curved 



band lo<s exteiidrd l)rown than in .ser/rt'it.-i, the two lines composing it being 





