MARDARA. NUMENES. 455 



Hind wing white, with a round black spot at end of cell ; a sub- 

 marginal patch on veins 2 and 3 ; a patch on costa before the 

 apex and on outer margin below it ; outer area slightly irrorated 

 with black. 



Hob. Sikhim; Nagas. Ea-p., tf 66, $ 72 millim. 



*1017. Mardara irrorata. Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 52 j C. $ S. no. 1057. 



c? . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen brighter ; antennae 

 brown ; legs speckled with brown. Fore wing ochreous white, 

 sparsely irrorated with red-brown scales ; a pale spot at end of 

 cell enclosing a brown line on discocellulars which is necked with 

 yellow. Hind wing ochreous white, the outer area sparsely 

 irrorated with red-brown scales. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 57 millim. 



1018. Mardara caligramma, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 204 ; C.$S. no. 997. 



c? . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and yellow hairs ; 

 fulvous-yellow tufts on metathorax ; abdomen fuscous, the segments 

 fringed with yellow ; the anal tuft orange. Eore wing dark 

 brown ; the veins yellowish ; a subbasal oblique yellow line ; an 

 antemedial highly angled line conjoined to a doubly angled post- 

 medial line which touches a waved submarginal line, thus forming 

 large reticulations ; a yellow spot on discocellulars. Hind wing 

 smoky black ; cilia of both wings ochreous. 



Hob. Simla; Sikhim; Nagas. Exp., J 50, $ 58 millim. 



SECT. II. Palpi not reaching beyond the frons ; fore wing with 

 vein 10 given off towards apex. 



1019. Mardara albostriata, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen black, the segments 

 fringed with white, the anal tuft orange. Eore wing red-brown ; 

 the veins streaked with white ; a basal white patch with a dark 

 spot on it ; a subbasal white line ; an angulated antemedial line 

 with a streak in the intern o-median interspace from it to an 

 excurved postmedial line which nearly touches an incurved sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wing white, with some black spots near apex 

 and on margin ; two large spots near anal angle. Undersides of 

 both wings white, with the apices brown. 



Hob. Manipur ; Nagas (Doherty). Exp. 60 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus NUMENES. 



Numenes, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 662 (1855). 

 Pseudomesa, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 923 (1855). 



Type, N. siletti, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Burma ; Java. 



