ALOPHOGASTEB. PHAUDA. 



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Genus ALOPHOGr ASTER, nov. 



Type, A. rubribasis, Hnipsn. 



Range. Naga Hills. 



Antennae bipectinated, with short branches. Fore wing with 

 all the veins from the cell. Hind wing long and narrow. Ab- 

 domen without tufts of hair. Tibiae without spurs. 



G10. Alophogaster rubribasis, n. sp. 



cJ. .Antennae black; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen scarlet, the 

 last with black bands on the 

 segments above. Wings semi- 

 diaphanous fuscous ; fore wings 

 with the base scarlet; the rest of 

 the wing with purple tints in a 

 side light. 



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 Alophogaster rubribasis, 3. 



Hob. Naga Hills. Exp. 27 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus PHAUDA, 

 Phauda, Wlk. Cat. i, p. 256 (1854). 



Type, P. flammans, Wlk. 



Range. China; North Indii ; Java; Sumatra. 



Antennae with short bipectinations in the male, simple in the 

 female. Wings very long and narrow ; fore wing with the apex 

 rounded and outer margin very oblique ; hind wing with vein 6 

 from near the middle of discocellulars. Mid and hind tibiae with 

 minute terminal pairs of spurs. Abdomen with lateral tufts of 

 hair on all except the first two segments, and a pair of long anal 

 tufts in the male. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 arising from the cell. 



Gil. Phauda flammans, Wlk. Cat. i, p. 257; C. $ S. no. 284; 

 Butt. III. Het. i, p. 20, pi. 9, fig. 2. 



Antennae black, with white 

 tips ; head and thorax scarlet : 

 abdomen black, sparsely covered 

 with scarlet hairs and with thick 

 scarlet lateral tufts, a pair of 

 long, black, anal tufts in the 

 male. Fore wing scarlet ; a 

 large, rounded, black patch on 

 outer margin. Iliud wing serai- 

 dia )hanous ; the basal area 

 led lish, the outer area blackish. 

 Hob. Simla ; Sikhim ; Burma. Exp., 3 34, $ 30 millim. 



Fig. 196. 

 Phauda flammans, 



