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embracing the basal half of cell and area below vein 2, white with 

 buff patches on median nervure and towards outer angle ; a large 

 round white apical patch with buff centre ; the red-brown area 

 with some indistinct lines on it ; the orbicular arid reniform spots 

 outlined with grey ; a series of white submarginal specks. Hind 

 wing red-brown; the basal and inner area whitish. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 55 millim. Type in coll. Knyvett. 



271. Stauropus basiniger, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 805 ; a $ S. 

 no. 1002. . 



$ . Pale brown ; collar blackish. Fore wing with the basal 

 area blackish, bounded by a curved black line ; a double incurved 

 waved post medial line, prominent towards inner margin ; a sub- 

 marginal series oH black lunules. 



Hcib. DehraDun; Balasore. Exp. 64 millim. 



272. Stauropus vinaceus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 404, pi. 33, fig. 1 ; 

 C. # S. no. 1133. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 brown, slightly irrorated with grey ; the basal area pale ; traces 

 of a double oblique waved antetnedial line and postmedial double 

 series of specks ; two red-brown streaks beyond the cell ; a sub- 

 marginal dark line bordered inwardly with white, curved in its 

 upper portion, dentate towards inner margin. Hind wing brown. 

 Hob. "India." Exp. 56 millim. 



273. Stauropus plagiviridis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 61 ; C. $ S. no. 1173. 



c? . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; antennae and abdomen 

 pale red-brown, the latter greyish at extremity. Fore wing red- 

 brown, with subbasal, ante- and postmedial highly irregular broad 

 bands of a beautiful silvery green, with bright green lines on 

 them ; a waved submarginal green line. Hind wing ochreous ; an 

 indistinct line from middle of costa to anal angle, beyond which 

 the area is suffused with red-brown. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 54 millim. 



Genus SOMERA. 

 Somera, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 882 (1855). 



Type, S. viridifusca, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head; the first two joints 

 fringed with hair. Antennae with the branches long and reaching 

 the apex. Legs hairy. Fore wing broad, the subcostal nervure 



