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on outer by the medial area being leaden grey from costa to submedian 
fold; an olive-yellow discoidal lunule with two slight black points 
on it; postmedial line indistinct, dark defined on outer side by 
olive-yellow, bent outwards below costa, then erect, an oblique olive 
patch beyond it on costal area; an indistinct minutely dentate 
silvery grey subterminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown. 
Hab. Travancore, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 9 type. Exp. 28 
millim. 
Genus SELEPA. 
Type. 
Selepa, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 353 (1858) 
PRR ete eee Aiea ye i celtis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi downcurved, extending about the length of 
head and fringed with hair aboye and below; frons smooth; eyes large, 
round; antennx of male almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales and without crests; fore tibie fringed on both sides with long hair, the 
tarsal joints with slight tufts of scales, the mid and hind tibie slightly fringed 
with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 
5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 
8 to form a short areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from 
close to angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 
middle, 
Sect, I, Hind wing of male on underside with large patch of blackish andro- 
conia in submedian interspace from near base to near termen, 
followed by a small patch of rough hairy rufous scales on termen. 
6587. Selepa stigmatophora. 
Plotheia stigmatophora, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 805; id. Mothis 
Ind. iv. p. 524. 
3. Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with grey; abdo- 
men pale grey-brown; pecitus and ventral surface of abdomen 
whitish, ore wing cupreous brown tinged wlth grey; a curved 
Fig. 104.—Selepa stiymatophora, 3. 
sinuous brown antemedial line; a point of raised scales in middle 
of cel] and small discoidal tuft ; postmedial line double, obliquely 
excurved from costa to vein 4, tllen incurved and minutely waved 
below submedian fold, a faint waved subterminal line and traces 
of a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white tinged with 
