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lower edges ; a diffused medial fuscous band passing between the 

 stigmata ; an indistinct crenulate postmedial line ; an indistinct 

 submarginal line with prominent ferruginous and dark specks on 

 it ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing pale fuscous ; 

 the cilia whitish. 



Hob. Kashmir (Me Arthur). Exp. 42 inillim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. 



1706. Sexniophora castaneipennis, n. sp. 



cJ . Bright chestnut. Fore wing irrorated with black specks 

 and strigas ; traces of subbasal and antemedial lines ; the orbicular 

 and reniform indistinct, with a chestnut patch between them and 

 before the orbicular ; an indistinct curved postmedial line with 

 interrupted rufous marks beyond it. Hind wing fuscous ; the 

 cilia rufous. 



Nab. Kashmir (Me Arthur). Exp. 42 millim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. 



Genus BOMBYCIA. 



Bombycia, Steph. Ill Brit. Ent., Haust. iii, p. 57 (1829). 

 Cleoceris, Boisd. 2nd. Meth. p. 93 (1840). 



Type B. viminalis, Fabr., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Himalayas. 



Eyes naked and lashed ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 obliquely porrect and hairy ; thorax and abdomen without tufts ; 

 tibiaa without spines. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex some- 

 what acute. 



The typical species (Sect. I.) has the antennas of male bipectinated, 

 with short branches. 



SECT. II. Antennas of male with fasciculated cilia ; palpi 

 with the 3rd joint minute. 



1707. Bombycia persimilis, n. sp. 



Raphia viminalis, Butl. (nee Fabr.) III. Het, vii, p. 11. 



Brown, with a slight reddish tinge. Fore wing with a black 



streak from the base below median 

 nervure ; the subbasal and antemedial 

 double waved lines indistinct; the 

 orbicular and reniform large and pale 

 with black outlines ; claviform, a large 

 black lunule ; the postmedial double 

 \vaved line incurved to lower angle 

 of cell ; the submarginal irregular line 

 Fig. 125. pale ; cilia with slight pale streaks. 



Bombycia persimilis, tf. \. Hind wing with cell-spot and faint 



postmedial line below. 



Hal. Dharmsala (Hocking). Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



