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towards the apex of fore wing, in the male the ocellus large and 

 round or elongate, with a prominent pupil. The branches of the 

 antennae vary much in length. 



Larva brown and hairy, with six pink tubercles on each somite : 

 white sublateral irregular blotches from 4th to 10th somites ; 

 claspers pink. 



Hab. Himalayas ; Assam ; Yunnan ; Java. Exp. 90-124 millira. 



*26. Loepa? simplicia, Maass. $ Weym. Beitr. zur Schmett. pt. ii, 

 fig. 20; C. $ S. 110 1508. 



cT . Yellow. Fore wing with a pink and white antemedial line 

 from the subcostal to the inner margin, bent at the median nervmv : 

 an ocellus at end of cell, with white centre ringed with yellow, 

 black, and pink ; a subapical pink patch, with dark specks on it, 

 and a straight; brown submargiual line from it. Hind wing with 

 the antemedial line angled near inner margin ; the ocellus larger 

 than on fore wing ; the brown line postmedial, slightly bent and 

 \vaved, and arising below the costa. 

 Hab. E. Indies. Exp. 160 millini. 



27. Loepa newara, Moore, P. '/,. S. 1872, p. 578 ; C. $ S. no. 1 .".->. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright yellow; collar grey ; 

 bordered by reddish lines. Fore wing yellow, irronued with grey, 

 fuscous, and pink scales, except at centre of inner margin and 

 outer area; some pink hairs at base; a grey and fuscous ante- 

 medial line, angled at median nervure ; a large subtriangular hya- 

 line spot at end of cell ; a dark postmedial slightly curved and 

 oblique line ; a sickle-shaped white subapical mark, with a black 

 spot above it and a pink streak below it, trom which runs a highly 

 waved submarginal line ; a marginal olive band. Hind wing 

 yellow ; a pink and dark antemedial line ; a hyaline spot at 

 end of cell edged with fuscous ; a postmedial line, beyond which 

 the area is suffused with pink and fuscous, with a waved outer 

 edge. 



Cocoon pale blue-green, and suspended by a silken peduncle. 



Hab. Nepal; Sikhim. Exp., 3 150, $ 142-150 millim. 



Genus SALASSA. 

 Salassa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 246. 



Type, S. Ma, Westw. 

 Jf-nif/f. Sikhim ; Sylhet. 



Fore wing with the apex acute ; outer margin nearly evenly 

 curved. Hind wing and neuration as in Saturnia. Tarsi naked. 



