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278. Damata longipennis, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1044 ; Butl. Ill Het. \i 

 pi. 106, fig. 10 ; C. $ S. no. 1179. 



d 1 . Antennae black ; head and thorax dark chocolate ; patagia 

 white fringed with red; abdomen brown, with slight white lateral 

 tufts. Wings white. Fore wing irrorated with black scales; 



Fig. 95. Damata longipennis, $ . \. 



large triangular chocolate marks on costa and inner margin before 

 and after the middle; a series of small marginal spots; cilia copper- 

 coloured. Hind wing with a short brown line from the inner 

 margin above the anal angle and patch at angle ; the margin 

 narrowly brown ; cilia chequered copper and white. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 70 niillim. 



279. Damata microsticta, n. sp. 



cJ . Differs from lonyipennis in the thorax and patagia being 

 grey. Tore wing more thickly irrorated with fuscous, so that it 

 appears grey ; the triangular marks much smaller and black ; the 

 spot towards outer angle absent ; series of small black spots on 

 the nervules beyond the cell, in interno-median interspace, and on 

 vein 1 ; no marginal spots. Hind wing with a slight fuscous patch 

 and streak at anal angle. Cilia of both wings chequered fuscous 

 and white. 



Hab. Naga Hills, 6000 feet (Doherty); Cambodia. Exp. 56 

 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus DICRANURA. 

 Dicranura, Boisd, 2nd. Meth. p. 54 (1829). 



Type, D. vinula, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; N.W. Himalayas. 



Palpi slight and porrect ; antennae with the branches long and 

 slender and reaching the apex. Abdomen and legs hairy. Fore 

 wing broad ; vein 5 from just below upper angle of cell; 6 from 

 end of areole, which is formed by 9 and 10 anastomosing with 7 



