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and posterior margin crimson-red. Abdomen light ochrcous-rosy, Forewings 

 elongate, costa moderately arched towards base and apex, nearly straight 

 towards middle, apex rounded-obtuse, termen oblique, slightly i*oundcd ; rather 

 light crimson, deeper on margins, dorsum more or less orange ; costa narrowly 

 yellow from about \ to f ; an outwardly oblique yellow bar from \ of dorsum, 

 reaching nearly half across wing, and a similar inwardly oblique bar from 

 _b(efore tornus ; a yellow dot above middle of dorsum : cilia yellow, on lower 

 half of termen crimson. Hindwings and cilia light ochreous-rosy, costal cilia /^''74 ^ 



pale yellowish. 



Sikkim and Bhotan (1,800 feet), in May ; two specimens (Dudgeon). 



Cerace sardias, n. sp. 



$, 33-40 mm. Head and palpi blackish. Antennae black, spotted with 

 white. Thorax purple-blackish with scattered yellow scales. Abdomen purple- 

 blackish with lateral series of thick yellow bars. Forewiugs elongate, costa 

 strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, very oblique ; 6 to costa; 

 bright yellow ; extreme base purple-blackish ; a narrow irregular-edged deep 

 purplish fascia, mixed with black and strewn with small bluish-leaden-metal- 

 lic spots, from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, including a 

 yellow dot on costa and dorsum ; apical area beyond this fascia wholly deep 

 red, strewn with bluish-leaden-metallic dots : cilia purple-blackish, Hindwings 

 bright yellow ; apical third purple-blackish, anterior edge straight ; cilia purple- 

 blackish, round tornus and dorsum yellow, 



Khasi Hills ; three specimens (Swinhoe), 



Simcethis satidaracina, n. sp. 



^. 16-18 mm. Head dark grey, irrorated with white. Palpi white, sprin- 

 kled with dark grey. Antennae white, ringed with black. Thorax dark grey, 

 euffused with red- brown and sprinkled with white. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, sprinkled with whitish, apex ferruginous. Forewings elongate-trian- 

 gular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, rather oblique ; 

 red-brown, posterior § of costa broadly suffused with ferruginous-ochreous . 

 exterior half of dorsum broadly suffused with dark grey ; a short fine white 

 line from costa near base ; an irregular fine white line from ^ of costa to before 

 middle of dorsum, irrorated with dark grey except on costa ; a very indistinct 

 fine irregular line of grey irroration from a white spot on costa beyond middle 

 to ^ of dorsum, followed on costa by a patch of dark grey irroration ; a sub- 

 terminal line of grey irroration from beneath apex to tornus : cilia dark red- 

 brown, tips white on subapical and submedian patches. Hindwings orange- 

 ochreous, partially suffnsed with ferruginous ; costa rather broadly dark fus- 

 cous, dorsum rather broadly suffused with grey ; cilia grey, suffused with 

 white round apex and with red-brown on termen. 



Simla, in August and September ; two specimens (Nurse). 



Brenthia catenata, n. ap. 



9. 8-9 mm. Head, antennra, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish, second and terminal joints with basal and subapical dark fuscous rings. 



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