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bar between vein 1 b and the median nervure ; veins 7 and 8 and 

 9 and 10 stalked in both wings, and the veinlets in cell forked. 



678. Palpifer sexnotatus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 413; C. fy S. 



no. 1611. 



Hepialus murinus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 413 ; C. $ S. no. 1608. 

 Hepialus taprobanus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 545. 



$ . Head, pro- and mesothorax dark 

 brown ; metathorax fulvous yellow ; 

 abdomen black-brown. Fore wing 

 dark red-brown ; two white subbasal 

 spots below the median nervure ; a 

 round white spot at centre of cell ; 

 traces of a postmediai dark line ; some 

 Fig.2l7.-Pa!pifer sea:- ochreous specks on costa near apex; 

 nofatus, (5 1 . i-. a blftck speck at centre of inner margin. 



Hind wing the basal area fulvous 



yellow, extending along the costa nearly to apex ; the outer area 

 dark red-brown. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



*679. Palpifer tavoyanus, Moore, J. A. S. B. lv, pt. 2, 1886, p. 98 ; 

 C. $ S. no 1612. 



c? . Pale vinous brown ; hind part of thorax and 1st segment of 

 abdomen clothed with ochreous hairs. Fore wing with some dark 

 quadrate costal marks, others in and below the cell ; an irregular 

 medial band with dentate margin ; a series of small marginal 

 lunules and a black spot above outer angle ; all these markings 

 with narrow ochreous edges. Hind wing dark vinous brown, 

 ochreous at base ; cilia ochreous from anal angle to vein 4. 

 Hob. Tavoy. Exp. 77 nrillim. 



Genus HEPIALISCUS, nov. 



Type, H. nepalensis, Wlk. 



Range. Himalayas. 



Palpi absent. Antennae short and filiform. Fore wino with veins 

 1 a and c short and slender ; a bar between veins 1 b and c and the 

 median nervure ; both wings with veins 8, 9, 10 stalked, and two 

 veinlets in the cell which are bent down and meet near centre of 

 median nervure. Legs short and hairy ; tibiae without spurs. 



In Hepialus, Fabr., type humuU, vein 8 is given off from the cell 

 in both wings. 



Larva feeding in the roots of grasses &c. 



680. Hepialiscus nepalensis, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1557 ; C. $ S. no. 1603. 

 Hepialus indicus, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1558 ; C. $ S. no. 1606. 

 Hepialus pauperatus, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 593 ; C. $ S. no. 1610 ; 



Butl III. Hot. vi, pi. 108, figs. 6, 7. 

 Hepialus marcidus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 69 ; C. $ S. no. 1607. 



