MECISTOPTERA. BH^SENA. 103 



traces of a dentate line beyond it. Hind wing paler, with dark 

 speck at end of cell ; indistinct postmedial line and marginal dark 

 line. 



Hob. Manipur (Doherty*) . Exp. 26 miliim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



SECT. II. Fore wing with the outer margin angled at vein 3 

 and crenulate. 



3014. Mecistoptera velifera, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885. p. 473, pi. 28. 



fig. 17; C. #&no. 2962. 



. Head and collar ochreous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous brown suffused with fuscous, especially on 

 inner area ; a pale spot at end of cell ; a lunulate marginal brown 

 band with ochreous spot inside it above outer angle. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous. 



Hob. Bhutan; Poona. Exp. 26 miliim. 



SECT. III. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly 

 angled at middle. 



3015. Mecistoptera variegata, n. sp. 



2 Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown, 

 variegated with rufous, purple, and ochreous shades ; a dark streak 

 on median nervure ; a white speck in cell and black speck at end 

 of it ; traces of an antemedial line with two angles in the cell ; a 

 postmedial line angled beyond the cell and with purplish suffusion 

 beyond it ; an indistinct submarginal sinuous maculate line ; the 

 veins beyond the cell dark-streaked ; a marginal dark line. Hind 

 wing pale with marginal dark line ; underside with indistinct cell- 

 spot and postmedial line. 



Hal. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 32 miliim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus RHJESENA. 

 Rhsesena, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1973 (1866). 



Type, R. transcissa, Wlk. 



Ranye. S. Africa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Borneo ; Australia. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint thickly scaled, the 3rd of moderate 

 length ; antennae with long bristles and fasciculated cilia in male ; 

 abdomen long, with dorsal tuft on 1st segment ; the tibiae slightly 

 clothed with scales. Fore wing long and narrow ; the costa 

 arched towards apex, which is acute ; the areole short, with vein 7 

 given off beyond it ; males with a vesicle at upper angle of cell on 

 underside covered by a valve of scales. Hind wing with vein 5 

 from below middle of discocellulars. 



3016. Rhaesena transcissa, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1974. 



Rhaesena obliquifasciata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 183 ; C. < & 

 no. 2728. 



Head and collar fiery red; thorax purplish grey; abdomen 



