URAPTERX. SIRINOPTERYX. 147 



SECT. III. Outer margin of hind wing with scarcely a trace of 

 angulation at vein 6 and only a short pointed tail at vein 4. 



3087. Urapteryx excellens, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 99, pi. 135, fig. 13. 



$ . Differs from primularis in being paler and more ochreous ; 

 palpi and frons whitish. Fore wing with the bands fuscous, the 

 antemedial band more oblique and joined by a fuscous streak from 

 base on vein 1 ; the margins and cilia fuscous. Hind wing with a 

 curved postmedial fuscous band showing through from underside, 

 and running from the costa to near anal angle, where it is joined 

 by a line from the base along vein 1 and an oblique line from above 

 vein 4 ; the areas at anal angle and towards apex irrorated with 

 dark specks ; the submarginal area orange-yellow ; an almost mar- 

 ginal series of black lunules ; the cilia fuscous. Underside with 

 the markings stronger than on upperside. 



Hob. Kashmir. Exp. 51 millim. 



Genus SIRINOPTERYX. 



Sirinopteryx, Butl. Jburn. Linn. Soc. xvii, p. 201 (1883). 



Type, S. rufivinctata, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nagas. 



Differs from Urapteryx in the fore wing having vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 10 present, arising from the cell, anastomosing 

 with 11, and then with 8 and 9, thus forming a double areole. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin produced to a point at vein 4 ; 

 vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 6 and 7 on a short stalk. 

 Hind tibiae hardly thickened. 



3088. Sirinopteryx rufivinctata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1747 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3113. 

 Urapteryx quadripunctata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 613 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3110. 

 Sirinopteryx rufilineata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 385. 



Bright sulphur-yellow ; 

 palpi, frons, and antennae 

 marked with pale rufous ; 

 wings irrorated with small 

 fuscous spots. Fore wing 

 with oblique pale rufous 

 medial and postmedial lines ; 



*^ e cos ^ a anc ^ c ^ a rufous. 

 Hind wing with slightly 

 Fig. 78. Sirinopteryx rufivinctata, tf . \. curved medial rufous line ; 



the cilia rufous. 



The form quadripunctata has rufous spots at end of cell of each 

 wing ; the oblique lines obsolescent ; the postmedial line waved. 

 Hob. Sikhiin ; Khasis ; Nagas. Exp. 44-50 millirn. 



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