BOARMIA. 275 



cJ Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous and fuscous black. 

 Fore wing with a large dark-speckled rufous patch at base and 

 conjoined patches on outer area, smallest towards costa, largest 

 towards inner margin. Hind wing with a similar patch on inner 

 half of outer area ; both wings with a dark speck at end of cell and 

 the cilia intersected with rufous. Underside fuscous, with some 

 rufous on costa of fore wing bevond middle. 



. The wings broader ; fore wing with no fulvous at base ; 

 hind wing with an indistinct waved postmedial line. 



The rufous markings are often almost obsolete. 



Hob. Sikhhn ; Khasis ; Margharita, Assam. Exp., tf 35-3S, 

 $ 50 millim. 



3437. Boarmla fimbriata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 628; C. fy S. 



no. 3297. 



cJ. Differs from nigrescens in being chiefly rufous, the black 

 suffusion being confined on the fore wing to the costal area from 

 the base to the postmedial line, and on the hind wing to between 

 the antemedial and medial lines. Fore wing with oblique ante- 

 medial, crenulate oblique postmedial, and traces of submarginal 

 lines ; a spot at end of cell, dark patch on margin below apex, and 

 marginal series of black specks. Hind wing with speck at end of 

 cell ; antemedial and crenulate medial lines, the latter with grey 

 on its outer edge ; traces of submarginal line, with some grey 

 marks on it below apex ; marginal series of specks. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nagas. Exp. 40 millim. 



GROUP II. Male with no fovea at base of fore wing. 

 SECT. I. Hind wing with vein 5 absent. 



A. (Hemerophila). Male with the antennce bipectinated, the branches 

 decumbent ; hind tibice usually dilated with a fold and tuft of hair. 



a. Male ivith no secondary sexual patch to hind winy. 

 a'. Fore winy with vein 10 from the cell. 



3438. Boarmia subplagiata, Wlk. Cat. xxi, p. 319 ; C. fy S. no. 3284. 

 Hemerophila retractaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 627 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3283. 



Hemerophila senilis, Butl. III. Het. ii, p. 48, pi. 35, fig. 12. 

 Hemerophila jugorum, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 126, fig. 2; C. 8? S. 



no. 3280. 

 Menophra torridaria, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 237, pi. 8, fig. 27; 



C. S. no. 3274. 

 Hemerophila lignata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 680. 



Ochreous grey-brown, rufous, or fuscous brown, with dark 

 irroration and stria?; collar often fringed with black, and the 

 thorax hoary. Fore wing with antemedial black line, angled on 

 subcostal and median nervures, then oblique and slightly sinuous 

 to inner margin ; a speck beyond it at end of cell ; a postmedial 



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