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Subfamily Ophivsinm. 



Aramuna jmncttlinea. 



JSorsippa punctih'nea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 83, pi. cxlri. tig-. 14 



(1891). 

 Borsippa pollens, Hmpsn. (part.), Moths India, ii. p. 517 (1894). 



Gampola, Puttalam, Dumbara, and Ilaldamulla, Ceylon ; 

 two males, four females (Mackwood). 



Hampson^s type (a female) came from the Nil^iri Hills ; 

 my Ilaldamulla example (a female) is identical with it, the 

 others only differ in the obscureness of the discal black spot, 

 in a female from Gampola it is absent. The present confusion 

 as to the sectional position of the various forms of species 

 entered under the genus Borsippa in the * ]\roths of India ' 

 can only be worked out as we get males, which seem to be 

 difficult to capture, most of the species being represented by 

 females only. The males of Arannma, with their shortened 

 hind wings and distorted neuration, are very distinctive : the 

 male of jmncdimea is in form exactly like the male of 

 A. marginatay Moore, also from Ceylon; the marginal band 

 of the wings is similar, but all the other markings are the 

 same as in the female ; it differs from the female exactly in 

 the same manner as in Moore's Ceylon species. 



Bor 



sijyj^a 



macoma. nov. 



^ ? . AntennjB with grey cilia and bristles, shaft ochreous 

 spotted with dark brown ; palpi brown, with ochreous tips ; 

 head, thorax, and fore wings dark ochreous fawn-colour; a 

 grey, medial, narrow, and indistinct band, outwardly oblique ; 

 a row of discal brown dots immediately before the marginal 

 band, which is dull brown, with an inner dark margin edged 

 with whitish, and runs uj) straight from the hinder margin 

 near the angle for two thirds, then curves towards the outer 

 margin and is attenuated upwards along the margin to the 

 apex, and another dark narrow band runs through the centre 

 of the marginal band : hinl wings very slightly darker than 

 the fore wings, without any markings. Underside unitbrm 

 dark ochreous brown, without markings. 



Expanse of wings Ij-,, inch. 



Khasia liills ; two males, one female. 



The marginal band of the female is of the same shape as 

 in the male, but rather narrower ; it is not nearly allied to 

 anything I know ot. There is an example in the B. M. 

 unnamed, Quadrifid Drawer no. 121. 



