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of black specks. Hind wing with an indistinct antemedial line ; a 

 dark speck at end of cell ; a dark postmedial line, with diffused 

 red-brown lines on each side of it ; a marginal series of black 

 specks. 

 Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



SECT. III. Antennae of male with long bristles and cilia. 



2999. Chusaris figurata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 239; C. $ S. 



no. 3041. 

 Helia tessellata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 136, pi. 168, fig. 18. 



tf . Yellowish white ; palpi and collar marked with black ; 

 abdomen irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with a black patch on 

 base of costa : an antemedial black band, expanding into blotches 

 at costa and middle ; a postmedial band expanding into a large 

 blotch at end of cell, with a white lunule on the discocellulars, and 

 some ochreous beyond it on inner margin ; a fuscous mark and 

 black spot on costa before apex ; outer margin with a series of 

 triangular black spots and some ochreous at middle and outer 

 angle. Hind wing pale fuscous ; the inner area pale ; traces of 

 medial and marginal lines. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



3000. Chusaris paucimaculata, Hmpsn. III. Set. ix, p. 136, pi. 168, 



fig. 16. 



c? . Differs from figurata in being browner ; a black spot at 

 base of abdomen. Fore wing with the antemedial line reduced to 

 a black spot on costa and to traces towards inner margin ; a black 

 speck in cell ; the postmedial line reduced to a spot on the costa 

 and two at end of cell, and to traces towards inner margin ; a 

 marginal series of black specks. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



SECT. IV. (Chusaris). Antennae of male bipectinated. 



3001. Chusaris retatalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 215; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 167, fig. 5 ; C. & S. no. 2936. 

 Bleptina spurcatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1163. 



Brownish grey. Fore wing with some brown on costa at base ; 

 ill-defined double brown antemedial and medial lines ; a brow^n spot 

 at end of cell and another on costa before apex ; indistinct waved 

 postmedial and submarginal lines, a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing fuscous. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



SECT. V. Antennae of male with long cilia ; the palpi shorter. 



3002. Chusaris oculalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 614 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3027. 



Differs from opiliusalis in the palpi being marked with black ; the 



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