456 LYMANTBIID.E. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the first two joints thickly fringed 

 with hair. Antennae bipectinate in both sexes, the branches long. 

 Fore wing with the apex more produced and acute in the male 

 than the female ; neuration as in Dasychira ; hind wing with veins 

 6 and 7 from cell. 



1020. Numenes siletti, Wlk. Cat. Hi, p. 663 ; C. $ S. no. 964. 



Pseudomesa quadriplagiata, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 923 ; B\dl. III. Net. v, 

 pi. 90, fig. (5 ; C.SfS. no. 1031. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the last with the 

 segments fringed with white. Wings dark brown ; fore wing 

 with an oblique white band from the centre of costa to near outer 

 angle. Hind wing with a pale orange fascia from beyond the middle 

 of cell to near outer margin. 



. Head and thorax black ; abdomen orange, with paired dorsal 

 and ventral brown spots. Fore wing yellowish white ; a broad black 



Fig. 31 1 .Numenes siletti. 



fascia along inner margin met by oblique ante- and postmedial 

 chocolate bands, the latter sometimes enclosing some white spots ; 

 cilia chocolate. Hind wing pale orange, with a black-brown spot 

 towards apex and another towards anal angle, the former some- 

 times absent. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma. Exp., 3 50, ? 53 millim. 



1021. Nnmenes patrana, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 367 ; C. $ S. no. 963. 

 Numenes partita, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 290 ; C. $ S. no. 962. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous. Fore 

 wing white ; a basal dark red-brown patch with a spot on the 

 costa beyond it ; a broad medial Y-shaped band, with an oblique 



