HAMODES. PLEURONA. 549 



bright rufous ; the inner part of the oblique line grey. Hind wing 

 with the waved suffusion beyond the oblique line rufous. 

 Hal. Khasis. Exp. 60 millim. 



SECT. III. (Armana). Fore wing with the costa slightly arched 

 towards apex, which is but slightly produced; tibiae more 

 hairy. 



2623. Hamodes nigriricta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 250, 

 pi. 8, fig. 1. 



c? . Differs from aurantiaca in being much less irrorated with 

 black. Fore wing with minute black specks in cell and at end of it ; 

 no dark marks on costa ; the double oblique lines with the inner 

 one prominent, filled in with pinkish, not bent out to apex of fore 

 wings, and with a black spot beyond them at anal angle ; no traces 

 of dentate line beyond them. 



Hob. Bassein, Pegu. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus PLEURONA. 



Pleurona, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1564 (1866). 

 Chilkasa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 853. 



Type, P. falcata, Wlk. 



Range. Bombay; Burma; Andamans. 



Palpi obliquely porrect, the 3rd joint minute ; a sharp frontal 

 tuft ; thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hair. Fore wing 

 with the costa excised, then very highly arched towards apex, which 

 is produced and acute, the outer margin excurved at the middle. 



SECT. I. (Chilkasa)* Antennae of male fasciculated and with very 

 long setae on upperside. Fore and hind tibiae fringed with 

 very long thick hair ; mid tibiae with immense tufts of hair. 



2624. Pleurona perhamata. 



Chilkasa falcata, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 854 ; C. $ S. no. 3241 

 (praeocc.). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore 

 wing with the basal two-thirds brownish ochreous, slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; sinuous, very indistinct, antemedial and medial 

 lines ; a double slightly sinuous postmedial line, with the area 

 beyond it chocolate. Hind wing with the basal half brownish 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; a double medial line with 

 diffused chocolate beyond it shading off to the marginal area ; 

 both wings with fine marginal ochreous line. Underside with 

 medial and postmedial nearly straight lines to both wings. 



Hab. Bombay ; Rangoon. Exp. 52 millim. 



