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and clothed with long scales. Tibiae with the spurs rather short. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from near 

 centre of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12 ; 3 veinlets between 12 and the 

 costa. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 from near end of cell. 



1492. Schistophleps bipuncta, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 54, pi. 140, 



Ochreous semidiaphanous white. 

 Fore wing with an indistinct ante- 

 medial rufous line, with some 

 fuscous suffusion on its inner 

 edge ; black specks at centre and 

 end of cell ; the postmedial discal 

 area suffused with rufous; a 

 Fig g series of indistinct submarginal 



Schistophleps bipuncta, tf. |. streaks and marginal specks. 



Hind wing hyaline. 



Hob. JSfaga Hills ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 21 millim. 



Genus CHAMAITA. 



Chamaita, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 121 (1862). 

 Homopsyche, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x, p. 226 (1882). 



Type, C. trichopteroides, Wlk., from Borneo. 



Range. JS"aga Hills ; Assam; Ceylon; Borneo; New Britain. 



Palpi slight and porrect. Antenna? with the basal joint 

 thickened and very long. Tibiae with the spurs rather short. 

 Pore wing with the costa hairy and highly arched ; in C. tricho- 

 pteroides the cell in the male is covered by a fringe of hair arising 

 from the subcostal nervure ; of the Indian species the males are 

 unknown ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from near centre of 

 discocellulars ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 and 8 stalked ; 9 

 absent; 11 not anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



SECT. I. Tore wing with vein 10 absent. 

 1493. Chamaita neuropteroides, n. sp. 



2 - Head and thorax white, with a fulvous tinge ; abdomen 

 white. Wings semidiaphanous white ; fore wing with indistinct 

 antemedial and medial waved fulvous lines, and submarginal and 

 marginal series of specks. 



Hub. Margharita, Assam ; Kagas (Doherty). Exjp. 20 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



