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form with slight black outline; a dark triangular patch on the 

 costa before apex, with three rufous costal specks on it ; cilia bright 

 rufous. Hind wing dark fuscous, the cilia rufous. Underside : 

 fore wing with dark striae on the costa towards apex and ochreous 

 streaks on the veins near outer margin ; hind wing with cell-spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and submarginal series of ochreous spots. 

 Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



2098. Metachrostis emarginata, Hmpsn. Ill Set. viii, p. 76, pi. 145, 



99 



Dark violaceous grey ; palpi blackish. Pore wing with indistinct 

 subbasal line ; a waved antemedial line angled at middle and arising 

 from a chocolate spot on the costa ; a large triangular medial costal 

 patch, its outer edge denned by white and with a waved line arising 

 from it; reniform large and ill-defined ; the postmedial line highly 

 exciirved beyond cell and bent outwards towards inner margin ; a 

 large truncate triangular costal patch before apex, with three white 

 costal specks on it, its outer edge defined by white ; an irregularly 

 waved submarginal line. Hind wing dark fuscous ; underside with 

 cell-spot and irregularly curved indistinct postmedial line. 



Nab. Simla ; Nilgiris. Exp. 23 millim. 



Genus NARANGA. 



Naranga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 359. 



Type, N. diffusa, Wlk. 



Range. Japan; Formosa; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Java. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head and 

 smoothly scaled, the 3rd minute; antennae somewhat thickened, 

 annulate, and minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and abdomen 

 without tufts. Pore wing with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing 

 with veins 3 and 4 from cell or on a short stalk. 



2099. Naranga diffusa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 779 ; C. $ S. no. 1814. 



Naranga quadrivittata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 134 ; C. 8f S. no. 1815. 

 Naranga ferruginea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 134 ; C. # S. no. 1813. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 brownish ochreous. Pore wing 

 bright straw-yellow ; the basal 

 area ferruginous red ; a medial 

 oblique ferruginous band ; a broad 

 marginal ferruginous band ; cilia 

 yellow. Hind wing smoky black, 



Naranga diffusa, <$. |. the cilia yellow. Underside dark 



fuscous; the costa of fore wing 

 and outer margin of both wings yellow. 



