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SECT. I. (Bleptina). Males with the palpi not tufted with long 

 hair, nor recurved over head ; fore wing with no costal 

 fold. 



A. Fore tibiae of male with a sheath enclosing a mass of 

 flocculent scales. 



2811. Bleptina hadenalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 85 ; C. $ S. 



no. 29o4. 



Herminia restricta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 192; C. $ S. no. 2959. 

 Herminia ruptistigma, Hmpsn. 111. Ret. viii, p. 100, pi. 148, 



fig. 20. 



d . Pale brown. Fore wing with traces of an antemedial sinuous 

 line ; a dark lunule at end of cell ; an indistinct sinuous post- 

 medial line incurved below cell, and with dark patches on it beyond 

 the cell and above inner margin ; a sinuous submarginal line ; a 

 marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing with traces of medial 

 line, postmedial band, and submarginal line ; a marginal series of 

 dark lunules ; underside paler, with speck at end of cell and crenu- 

 late medial and postmedial lines. 



$ . With well-marked pale submarginal line to hind wing. 



In ruptistigma, from the Jsilgiris, vein 10 of the fore wing is 

 given oft' beyond the areole. 



Hab. Sikhirn ; Assam. Exp. 38 millim. 



2812. Bleptina nigella, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 265. 



$ . Smoky black. Fore wing with traces of waved ante- and 

 postmedial lines ; a black speck at end of cell : hind wing with 

 traces of a waved medial line : both wings with a submarginal 

 series of minute white specks and marginal series of black specks. 

 Underside suffused with grey; both wings with cell-spot and 

 waved postmedial and submarginal grey lines. 



Hab. Kangoon. Exp. 32 millim. 



2813. Bleptina apidanusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 240 ; C. $S. no. 2951. 



$ . Dull reddish brown. Fore wing with indistinct antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial minutely dentate lines ; a white spot at 

 end of cell ; prominent submarginal and marginal lunulate lines. 

 Hind wing with antemedial and medial minutely dentate lines, and 

 submarginal lunulate line. Underside greyer ; fore wing with 

 dark subapical marks beyond the postmedial line. 



Hab. " N. India." Exp. 30 millim. 



2814. Bleptina vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 192; C. $ S. no. 2963. 



c? . Fuscous. Fore wing with a broad antemedial pale oblique 

 band traversed by a dark line near its inner edge ; a minute speck 

 in 1 lie cell, and a dark lunule on the discocellulars ; some black 

 beyond and below end of cell ; a black mark at apex. Hind wing 



