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Head and thorax clothed with black-brown and leaden scales ; 

 abdomen and wings yellowish white. Fore wing with the basal 

 area brown, irrorated with leaden scales and narrowing to inner 

 margin ; traces of a medial series of specks ; a postmedial brown 

 band diffused outwards to the margin except at apex, its inner 

 edge sinuous and with a lead-coloured line on edge of band ; a 

 waved white submarginal line with some grey inside it. Hind 

 wing with dark speck at end of cell ; some stria3 on inner margin ; 

 a pale fuscous diffused postmedial band, with a crenulate white 

 line on its outer edge. 



Hob. Europe ; N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 26-30 milliin. 



Genus DILOPHODES. 



Dilophodes, Warr. Nov. Zool p. 416 (1894). 



Type, D. ehgans, Butl. 



Range. Japan ; Khasis. 



Palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons and fringed with 

 hair below ; antennae of male with two pairs of minute fasciculated 

 serrations to each joint ; coxsd of each pair of legs tufted with 

 black hair, hind tibia with a tuft from base and paired lateral tufts 

 on the base of abdomen. Fore wing of male with fovea ; vein 3 

 from before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 and 11 stalked, and 

 connected by a bar with 7, 8, 9 ; 10 and 11 anastomose with 12, 

 or 11 anastomoses with 12, then again with 10; 12 sometimes 

 bifurcate at extremity. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell. 



3539. Dilophodes elegans, Butl III Het. ii, p. 53, pi. 37, fig. 6. 

 Abraxas khasiana, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 17. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange, spotted with black ; wings 

 white, with black markings. Fore wing with the spots covering 

 the greater part of the surface, and consisting of basal spots, ante- 

 in edial and medial bands, which coalesce below the cell, a curved 

 postmedial series of smaller spots, and submarginal and marginal 



Fig. 142. Dilophodes elegant 



series often coalescing and interrupted between veins 3 and 4. 

 Hind wing with spot at end of cell ; spots on inner margin ; an 

 interrupted submarginal series of large spots and marginal series 

 of small spots. 



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