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SECT. II. Fore wing with the outer margin not angled. 

 A. Palpi with the 3rd joint not fringed iviih hair above. 



2893. Talapa transvitta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 551, pi. 215, fig. 1 ; 



C. # S. no. 2710. 



Bright red-brown. Fore wing with indistinct waved antemedia] 

 line bent outwards below median nervure ; a speck in cell, a 

 slightly oblique medial line with the area beyond it darker and 

 shading off to the marginal area ; a crenulate postmedial line and 

 indistinct waved submarginal line ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks. Hind wing fuscous brown r with three indistinct waved 

 lines on outer area. Underside with a white spot at end of cell 

 of each wing and some waved lines on outer area. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 36 niillim. 



B. Palpi wiili the 3rd joint fringed with hair above. 



2894. Talapa albigutta, Swinh. MS. 



<j? . Dark fuscous suffused with grey. Fore wing with a deep 

 black subbasal patch below median nervure ; traces of an ante- 

 medial line ; an inverted comma-shaped white mark on a blackish 

 patch on discocellulars ; a postmedial line with a rufous tinge 

 excurved round end of cell, and with an irregularly dentate line 

 beyond it, incurved below vein 3 ; a marginal crenulate line. Abdo- 

 men and hind wing fuscous. 



llab. Khasis. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus SINGARA. 

 Singara, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1113 (1865). 



Type, S. diversalis, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Nagas. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint porrect and very long, the 3rd of 

 moderate length, upturned, and tufted with hair ; antenna? fascicu- 

 lated in male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae fringed 

 with long hair. Fore wing with the apex nearly rectangular. 



2895. Singara diversalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1113; C. $ S. no. 2819 



d 1 . Orange, uniformly suf- 

 fused with crimson or blotched 

 with crimsonand fuscous. Fora 

 wing with indistinct straight 

 oblique antemedial line; the 

 reniform an indistinct yellow 

 patch with two red spots on it ; 

 a crenulate postmedial line 

 much incurved below cell ; an 

 indistinct lunulate submarginal 

 line. Hind wing with traces of 

 a crenulate postmedial line ; 



Fig. 34. Singara diversalis, 3 . f . k ot h w ings with marginal series 



of specks. 



Hab. Sikhim; Sylhet; Nagas. Exp. 52 millim. 



