MELANOGRAPIIIA. 



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uppoi- angle ; 7, S, and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 from 8 after 10; 11 oblique. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from near middle of discocellulars ; (!, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Frons and basal joint of antenna with tufts of scales ; fore wing with 

 vein 3 i'rom angle of cell, approximated to 4 for some distance ; a large 

 fovea at upper angle of cell on underside, with a clubbed corneous process 

 in it from veins 7, 8, which are much curved round fovea at base. 



101. Melanographia tympanistis, n. sp. 



■ Melanoymphia fi/mpanidu", Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. 



I. ^Z. 



J . Head and thorax white ; palpi and lower part of frons deep 

 black ; legs black, grej^ and white ; abdomen fuscous, with segmental 



white lines. Fore wing 

 white from costa near base 

 to tornus, the apical half 

 brown irrorated with black, 

 with tufts of leaden scales 

 on its inner edge ; some 

 tufts of black and leaden 

 scales on costal area above 

 end of cell ; a small tri- 

 angular blackish patch on 



Fig. Vi.—yielanogrttphiatympanidis, (^ . 



inner margin beyond middle ; some dark marks forming traces of 

 an irregular postmedial line ; a subterminal line retracted to costa, 

 angled at veins 6 and 4 and obsolete towards inner margin. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the inner area whitish. 



Bah. SiKHiM, 1«00 ft. {Diuhjeoii), 1 s type. Exy. 20 millim. 



Sect. II. Frons smooth ; antenna without tuft on basal joint; fore wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell. 



102. Melanographia flexilineata. 



Nola flexilineata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi. p. 440 (1898). 



Greyish white irrorated with fuscous ; palpi and lower part of 

 frons black. Fore wing with small tufts of scales near base, at 



middle and upper and lower 

 angles of cell ; some brown- 

 ish suffusion on subbasal 

 area ; the antemedial line 

 black, angled outwards in 

 and below cell and on vein 1 , 

 with tracer of a line parallel 

 to its inner bide ; traces of 

 a line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin; the 

 postmedial line line, deep, 

 black, very obliipie from costa to vein 4, then nearly erect ; the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous, with indistinct irregularly 



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Fig. 14. 

 Melanographia flexilineata, (^. 



