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brown irrorated with blue-grey to postmedial line, extending to 

 median nervure and vein 2, the submedian fold except at base, the 

 postmedial area and apex deep coppery red, the inner area pale 

 rufous irrorated with blue-grey ; the terminal area blue-grey ; sub- 

 basal line absent ; antemedial line indistinct, deep red, very 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then obsolete ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular with red centre and blue-grey annulus, very 

 narrow and extremely oblique : reniform very indistinct, its centre 

 defined by brown and with faint blue-grey annulus ; postmedial 



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Fig. 67- — Nicara castanea, rf . \. 



line strong, black -brown, oblique from co.sta to vein 6, then 

 excurved to vein 2 where it terminates, emitting streaks towards 

 cell above and below veins 5 and 2, a patch of blue-grey irroration 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blue-grey defined on each 

 side by pale rufous, evenly curved and obsolete on costal and inner 

 areas ; cilia rufous. Hind wing very dark brown, the cilia grey at 

 tips ; the underside blue-grey thickly irrorated with brown, a 

 brown discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 

 Bab. Sikhim (Pilcher), 2 rf . Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus APOCALYMNIA, nov. 



Type, A. tenebrosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with large 

 corneous process with raised edges; eyes large, rounded; antenna; of female 

 laminate; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with slight crest ; tibias moderately fringed witli 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen slightly waved and somewhat excised towards tornus ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4540. Apocalymnia tenebrosa. 



Caradrina tenebrosa, Hmpsu. J. Bomb. Soc. xiv. p. 204 (1902). 



5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; palpi 

 black at sides; frons fuscous at sides; pectus whitish, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown 

 and dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey, irro- 

 rated with fuscous and suffused in parts with brown ; subbasal 



