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postmedial crenulate dark lines ; a marginal series of black 

 specks. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 36 millim. m 



Genus FALCIMALA, nov. 





Type, F. atrata, Butl. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim. 



Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head, 

 the 3rd long ; antennae ciliated ; abdomen with large dorsal tuft 

 on first segment ; tibiae naked. Fore wing long and narrow ; the 

 apex somewhat acute; vein 6 from below angle of cell; 7 from 

 angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 

 stalked, 5 from middle of discocellulars. 



2S40. Falcimala atrata, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 88, pi. 134, fig. 6. 



Head and thorax fuscous ; abdomen paler, with the dorsal tuft 

 dark. Fore wing dark brown, irrorated with blue scales ; waved 



black subbasal, antemedial, 

 postmedial, and submarginal 

 lines ; the postmedial with 

 dark suffusion inside it; a 

 pale spot at end of cell ; a 

 marginal series of dark 



, , specks. Hind wing pale 



Fig. 24. Falcimala atrata, r$ . \. .* 



tuscous. 



Hob. Dharinsala ; Sikhim. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus DAXATA. 

 Daxata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1108 (1865). 



Type, D. bijunyens, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd 

 with a tuft of hair on the inner side ; antennae of male with long 

 bristles and cilia ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae 

 naked. Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form a 

 short areole. Hind wing with vein 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 

 cilia of both wings crenulate. 



2841. Daxata bijungens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1109,- Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 174, fig. 9 ; C. fy S. no. 2750. 



c? . Eeddish brown, suf- 

 fused with fuscous and with 

 a purplish tinge. Fore wing 

 with subbasal, antemedial, and 

 postmedial waved black lines, 

 the last highly bent outwards 

 round cell; the medial area 

 deeper purplish, with a black 

 speck at end of cell ; a pale submarginal lunulate line ; some pale 



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