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large marginal and cilial spots and two specks on inner margin. 

 Hind wing black, with a series of white cilial spots. Underside 

 variegated with white. 



The Bornean race has the outer of the two central spots of the 

 medial band larger. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp., J 24, $ 30 millim. 



2110. Pachylepis dicycla, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1964 ; C. fy S. no. 1833. 



Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow and ferruginous ; ab- 

 domen ochreous. Fore wing bright sulphur-yellow ; the basal 

 area variegated with ferruginous ; a figure-of-8 mark at end of 

 cell ; outer area ferruginous, with a series of yellow triangular 

 marginal marks and the cilia spotted with yellow. Hind wing 

 white with broad fuscous marginal band. Underside whitish. 



Hob. "N.India"; Eangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus EUBLEMMA. 



Eublemma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1818). 



Anthophila, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 93 (1816) (pneocc.). 



Porphyrinia, Hiilm. Verz. p. 256 (1818). 



Eronome, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256. 



Heliomanes, Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. pt. x, p. 16 (1837). 



Micra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x, p. 225 (1841). 



Mestleta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 829 (1865). 



Type, E. respersa, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. N. and S. America ; Africa ; Palaearctic and Oriental 

 regions ; Australasia. 



Palpi upturned and reaching just above vertex of head, the 3rd 

 joint short ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled ; legs short, the tibiae moderately hairy. 

 Eore wing with the apex somewhat produced and depressed ; veins 

 6 and 7 from angle of cell ; 8, 9, 10 stalked from before the angle. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. 



Larvae with two pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



SECT. I. Male with no pit in the membrane of fore wing 

 towards apex, which is somewhat acute. 



2111. Eublemma bulla, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 518, pi. 47, fig. 9; 



C. $ S. no. 1880. 



Marimatha pura, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 456, pi. 28, fig. 16 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 1868. 



c? . Ochreous white. Eore wing with a few black scales at 

 middle and end of cell, near inner margin and at outer angle. 

 Hind wing pure white ; fuscous towards outer margin in the 

 Simla specimen. 



Hob. Simla ; Karachi ; Poona. Exp. 20 millim. 



