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Genus TALAPA. 

 Talapa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 82. 

 Type, T. caliginosa, Wlk. 

 Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nagas ; Ceylon. 



Palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd and 3rd joints long, the 2nd 

 clothed with hair ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae hairy. Pore wing with the apex 

 produced and acute. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle 

 of cell. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly angled at vein 4. 



2890. Talapa caliginosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1017. 



Talapa caligiuomlis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1807, pi. 7, fig. G; C. $ S. 



no. 2849. 



c? . Head and thorax dark red-brown; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing dark red- brown, slightly irrorated with grey scales ; almost 



straight oblique medial 



_ p "v. and post medial dark lines 



H^^^^N^y /^\^^^ / w *th g re J inner edges. 



^^MA ^^^'^^~~f / Hind wing dark fuscous, 



B^^EEir^^ / with crenulate marginal 



I l^sTr^^X / ^ ne * Underside red- 



I mv^S? l#w ^ s ^' w **k ^ ai *k P ost ~ 



* M\J>^ *^ medial and indistinct 



submarginal lines ; hind 

 Fig. &.-Talapa caliginosa, rf , \. wing wifch ce ll-s po t. 



$ . Much redder. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp., & 42, $ 52 millim. 



2891. Talapa rufilineata, n. sp. 



cJ . Grey ; the wings irrorated with rufous. Fore wing with 

 oblique antemedial, medial, and postmedial straight rufous lines ; 

 the costa rufous ; a subapical jet-black spot, with a rufous band 

 from it to costa, and traces of a curved line from it to outer margin ; 

 a subraarginal series of rufous specks, Hind wing with ante- 

 medial and two postmedial oblique rufous straight lines; both 

 wings with waved marginal rufous lines. 



Unit. Nagas (DoJierty). E*p. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



2892. Talapa griseifusa, n. sp. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown. Fore wing dark red-bro\vn. 

 suiTiiscd with blue-grey; an antemedial diffused erect dark line ; 

 medial and postmedial ill-defined irregular lines, the former \\itli 

 grey lunule on it at end of cell ; a double submarginal straight 

 oMujue line, filled in with rufous and not reaching apex, with 

 Miu'k subapical and im-dial patches beyond it. Abdomen and hind 

 \\'\\\ hri\\n. 111.- hiM.-r with traces of postmedial line. 



Tin- NYi.ua frnmli' has the medial line of fore wing and post- 

 nx-dial line of hind wing double, and orange specks at the angle of 

 cell of fore winu r instead of tlio hnule on diseocellulars. 



lll>. Sikhim (Elwts): Xdgas (Dvherty). Exp. 40-42 raillim. 

 Tvpe in coll. EKves. 



