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158. Zia laminata. 



Acontia laminata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 75, pi. 145. f. 5, § (1891) ; 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 145. 

 Pisara rufetxens, Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 145, (S (1894), 



$. Head and thorax white; abdomeu fuscous banded with 

 white. Fore wing white, irrorated with a few fuscoiis scales ; a 

 blackish spot at base of costa ; the antemedial line fine, black, 

 interrupted at median nervure and obsolete beloAV vein 1 ; the 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 3, then excurved to below 

 angle of cell ; a triangular blackish patch on costa between the lines 

 shot with purple and cupreous, its apex below the cell, and with 

 tufts of dark scales on it at middle and upper angle of cell ; a tutt 

 of white scales at lower angle ; the terminal area black and brown 

 shot with pui-ple and cupreous scales, except a large white jjatch on 

 costa estending from apex to postmedial line at vein 5 ; some 

 fuscous points on costa towards apex ; an indistinct irregularly 

 sinuous subterminal line. Hind wing fuscous. 



S . Abdomen white, brownish towards extremity ; fore wing 

 with the spot at base of costa represented by two points ; the lower 

 part of triangular medial patch and the terminal area much redder 

 brown ; hind Aving reddish brown. 



Hah. NiLGiRis {Hamjjson), 1 § type ; Burma, Kangoou (Scott), 

 1 (S , type rufescens. Exp., J 18, $ 24 millim. 



159. Zia lunisigna. (Plate XX. fig. 34.) 

 Kola lunisigna, Hmpsn. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. See. xi. p. 441 (1898). 



6 . Greyish white ; palpi black at base ; abdomen fuscous, with 

 segmental white rings. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; a black 

 spot below base of costa ; the tufts near base and at middle and 

 upper angle of cell rather small; traces of a sinuous subbasal line; 

 the antemedial line fine, black, angled inwards above vein 1 and 

 outwards below it ; a prominent black lunule at upper angle of cell, 

 with point above it on costa ; a fine medial fuscous line from it to 

 inner margin angled inwards below cell ; the postmedial line black, 

 oblique and punctiform from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards and 

 stronger ; a dentate fuscous subterminal line retracted to costa. 

 Hind wing fuscous, ])aler towards inner margin. 

 Huh. Assam, Khtisis, 1 6 type. Exj). 24 millim. 



Genus ARCHINOLA. 



Type. 

 Archingla, Km^sn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 258 pyralldla. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, extending nbout twice the length of head 

 and roughlj scaled above and below; maxilliry palpi large, triangularly scaled ; 

 frons smoothly scaled ; antenna; of male cilii'itt-d, with tuft of scales on basal 

 joint; tibi£e with the spurs long. Fore wing long and narrow; vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 



