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faintly marked ; vein 3 from before lower apex of cell, 4 from 

 lower apex, 5 from junction of middle and lower discocellulars, 

 6 from upper apex of cell, 8 absent, 9 from apical half of 7, 

 10 free, 11 anastomosed with 12 for a short distance, then ex- 

 tended free to costa, 12 terminates on costa well before apex 

 of cell. Hind wing : costa slightly concave, apex obtusely an- 

 gulate; termen anteriorly slightly concave, posteriorly strongly 

 convex ; tornus blunt, almost rounded ; dorsum long, slightly 

 arched ; cell about half length of wing, middle and lower disco- 

 cellulars oblique and convex ; vein 3 from a little before lower 

 apex of cell ; vein 8 strongly arched at base, then straight to 

 apex, running very close to the costal margin. Antennae about 

 half length of fore wing; club stout, abrupt, spatulate ; palpi 

 subporrect, somewhat lax, furnished with a bristly fringe of hairs 

 anteriorly, third joint short, acicular ; eyes hairy ; body moderately 

 stout. 



A single form is found within our limits in Sikhim and in 

 Upper Burma. 



730. Orthomiella pontis (PL XIX, fig. 139), Elwes (Chilcades?), 

 P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 446 ; id. (Chilodes ?) Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 384, pi. 8, fig. 5 <S ; de N. Suit. Incl iii, 1890, p. 126, pi. 26, 

 fig. 177 d . 



d 1 . Upperside : deep purplish brown, the purple suffusion 

 visible in some lights, not in others. Fore and hind wings : 

 uniform, with dark brown, somewhat broad anticiliary lines. 

 Cilia brown alternated with white. Underside : paler, somewhat 

 silky brown. Fore wing : base thickly irrorated with black scales ; 

 cell transversely crossed in the middle and along the discocellulars 

 by brown bars of a darker shade than the ground-colour of the 

 wing; a transverse, somewhat irregular, catenulated, discal, 

 similarly coloured band followed by a slightly paler, transverse, 

 narrow, lunular, subterminal broad line, beyond which the ground- 

 colour is earthy-brown, with a superposed terminal series of 

 lunate spots in the interspaces. The cellular and discal markings 

 are faintly edged with white, the terminal markings are generally 

 very obscure. Hind wing : base, posterior half of cell and bases 

 of interspaces 1 a, 1, 2 and 3 densely irrorated with black scales 

 with irregular small patches of paler scales superposed thereon ; 

 a transverse, catenulated, subbasal dark brown band, a similar 

 shorter band from costa across the discocellulars aud a similar very 

 irregular discal band from costa, all merged posteriorly into the 

 irroration of black scales, followed as on the fore wing by an 

 obscure, transverse, lunular, subterminal brown line, and a terminal 

 row of ill-defined, similarly coloured, lunate spots. Antennae 

 dark brown, the shafts speckled with white ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen deep purplish brown ; beneath : palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen fuscous black. $ . Upmrside : dark brown. Fore 

 wing: basal two-thirds brilliant purplish blue, much brighter 

 than the purple sheen in the d 1 . Hind wing : a medial area from 



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