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medial lines indistinct, the last with some olive beyond it ; an 

 indistinct pale submarginal line ; a marginal series of black specks ; 

 cilia olive with brown tips. Hind wing with the base white ; the 

 outer area fuscous brown ; the cilia pale with a dark line through 

 them ; underside with cell-spot and crenulate postmedial line. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus MOSARA. 

 Mosara, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1032 (1855). 



Type, M. apicalis, Wlk. 



Range. Western India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head; antennas bi- 

 pectinated ; thorax hairy ; abdomen with slight dorsal tufts ; the 

 male with large lateral and anal tufts ; tibiae without spines and 

 strongly tufted. Fore wing short and broad ; the apex rounded ; 

 the inner margin lobed near base, and with a slight tooth of scales 

 at outer angle. Hind wing of male with a ridge and fold on 

 underside running from centre of costa to lower angle of cell and 

 thence to centre of outer margin. 



2469. Mosara apicalis, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1032 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 159, figs. 3, 3 a ; C. $ S. no. 2351. 

 Anophia lateralis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 917. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen pale, with the 

 lateral and anal tufts fulvous. Fore wing dark red-brown ; a 



Fig. 271. Mosara apicalis, <$. \. 



chocolate spot at base ; an indistinct curved antemedial line ; the 

 renif orm indistinct, with a white speck on it ; a curved submarginal 

 pale line, with an indistinct crenulate line inside it ; some sub- 

 apical dark spots, and one at centre of outer margin. Hind wing 

 with the basal half pale, the outer fuscous. 



Hob. Poona ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Moulinein ; Rangoon ; Borneo. 

 23, $ 32 millim. 



Genus ARCTE. 



Arete, Koll. HilgeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 477 (1844). 

 Cocytodes, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 41 (1852). 



Type, A. polygrapha, Koll. 



Range. W. Indies ; Africa ; the Oriental region to the New 

 Hebrides and Fiji. 



