ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



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Pajye 584. 



Genus PACHYLEPIS. 



Type. 



Pachylepis, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 7 (1874), non descr. ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Iiid. ii. p. 337 , dilectissima. 



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

 of frons, broad and rounded in front, hollowed out on inner side, the 3rd joint 

 moderate ; frons hollowed out below, produced to a corneous point, at middle 

 with a slight ridge below it; eyes large, round; antenna; of male somewhat 

 thickened and almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 

 prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibia; smoothly 

 scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curbed and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



3452 a. Pachylepis dilectissima. 



Ariola dilectissima, Wlk. xv. 1751 (1858); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 337. 

 Pachylepis limacodina, Feld. Reis. Nov, pi. 83. f. 12 (1874). 



Head, tegulae, and metathorax sulphur-yellow, the rest of thorax 

 orange-red ; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennas black-brown ; 

 pectus and legs brown mixed with white ; abdomen black with 

 white segmental lines, the anal tuft yellowish white, the ventral 



Fig. 242. — Pachylepis dilectissima, rf . \. 



surface white with black sublateral spots. Fore wing orange-red ; 

 a yellow patch at base of costa ; small antemedial spots on costa 

 and inner margin ; a medial patch on costa and spots in and below 

 cell and on inner margin ; a spot at lower angle of cell ; the post- 

 medial part of costa with a series of points and a point on inner 

 margin ; the costa with dark marks between the spots except 

 towards base ; a terminal series of spots with larger patches at apex 

 and tornus ; cilia dark between the spots. Hind wing black-brown, 

 the termen and cilia with patches of white except towards apex. 

 Underside of both wings black-brown ; fore wing with patches of 

 white on costa at base and middle, some spots beyond middle and s 

 terminal series ; hind wing with some white on costa towards base, 

 a medial patch, two spots in end of cell, and a fascia below the 

 cell. 



Bab. N.E. Bengal, 1 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 <f ; 

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