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661. Duomitus mineus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, p. 52, pi. 131 D; C. $ S. 

 no. 1592. 



Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen dark metallic blue- 

 green. Fore wing yellow with a pinkish tinge ; base blue-green ; 

 spots of the same colour along the costa, the largest being beyond 

 the end of the cell and just before the apex ; small spots at centre 

 and end of cell ; a large transverse oval spot from median nervure 

 to inner margin ; a large longitudinal spot from below the end 

 of the cell at vein 1 b to near the apex at vein 7 ; a marginal 

 series of spots increasing in size to outer angle and continued along 

 the inner margin. Hind wing yellow, with some black down on 

 inner area, and blue-black streaks in the interspaces beyond the cell ; 

 two spots on the costa near apex ; a series of marginal spots. 

 Hab. Sikhim; Sylhet; Calcutta; Granjam ; Manilla; Java. 

 3 68-93, 2 108-132 millim. 



662. Duomitus fnscipars, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown, grizzled with grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Fore wing with the costal half very deep red-brown ; 

 the inner area more or less thickly suffused with white scales, 

 the inner margin being white tessellated with black marks. Hind 

 wing paler red-brown ; a large white triangular patch tessellated 

 with black on the outer margin between veins 1 b and 4. 



Hab. Sikhim (Moller}. Exp. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus AZYGOPHLEPS, nov. 



Type, A. scalaris, Fabr. 



Range. Africa ; China ; throughout India and Burma ; Cam- 

 bodia. 



Palpi minute ; antennae bipectinated to half the length in both 

 sexes, the branches longest at the middle of pectinated portion and 

 rapidly diminishing towards base and apex ; shorter in female than 

 in male. Legs without spurs. Wings long and narrow; the 

 neuration as in Duomitus except that veins 4 and 5 of hind wing 

 arise from a point. 



663. Azygophleps albofasciata, Moore. Lev. Atk. p. 87; C. & S. 

 no. 1585. 



cJ . Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen black ; collar white. 

 Fore wing brown, with numerous fine black stria3 ; a broad white 

 band below the subcostal nervure from the base to the apex. 

 Hind wing pale, with numerous faint brown striae. 

 Hab. Kashmir ; Sikhim. Evp. 54-57 milliin. 



