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suffused with fuscous ; antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal 

 waved lines with pale edges ; a series of marginal specks. Hind 

 wing white, with diffused ante- and postmedial fuscous band ; the 



Fig. 265. Melipotis atrosiynata, <$ . |. 



apex fuscous ; a large black spot near middle of outer margin ; a 

 dark marginal line. 



Hob. Hyderabad, Sind. Exp. 34 millim. 



SECT. II. (Melipotis). Mid and hind tibiae with slight spinous 

 tufts ; fore tibiae without the tufts. 



2450. Melipotis cashmirensis, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax brown, irrorated with grey ; abdomen pale 

 brown. Pore wing brown, thickly suffused with grey ; a medial 

 white band, bounded inwardly by a clurk brown line and outwardly 

 by a postmedial line much excurved beyond cell, especially beyond 

 lower angle, to which it is sharply excurved ; a dark line on disco- 

 cellulars ; a nearly straight submarginal indistinct pale line. Hind 

 wing brown, with the interspaces of basal area whitish ; a white 

 spot on outer margin at vein 2 ; the cilia white. 



Hob. Kashmir (McArihur). Exp. 38 millim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. 



SECT. III. Male with large tufts of hair on inner side of palpi 

 on 2nd and 3rd joints ; tibiae with the tufts slight. Hind 

 wing with a patch of differently formed scales in base of cell, 

 and a tuft of hair from base of costal nervure on upperside. 



2451. Melipotis fulviceps, n. sp. 



Dark fuscous brown, with a bronze tinge ; head and legs 

 bright orange-yellow; the tufts on palpi of male black. Fore 

 wing slightly irrorated with grey ; some white specks on costa 

 towards apex, and a series on outer margin. Hind wing paler. 



Hob. Simla (Harford). Exp. 32 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus GNAMPTOGYIA, nov. 



Type, G. multilineata, Hmpsn. 

 Range. N.W. Himalayas. 



Palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, and reaching just above vertex 

 of head ; antennae long and thick, with fasciculated cilia in male ; 



