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subbasal patch witb grey rings on it ; some grey spots on and below 

 costa; a large grey patcb at end of cell; a postmedial oblique 

 series of olive-yellow lunules and spots on grey patches, inter- 

 rupted between veins 4 and 6 and ending at outer angle ; numerous 

 conjoined grey spots on marginal area. Hind wing with large 

 grey patch at end of cell ; a postmedial series of small spots 

 becoming an olive-yellow line, with patches beyond it on a grey 

 ground from vein 3 to anal angle ; a few submarginal grey spots. 

 Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp., rf 64, $ 90 millim. 



B. Fore wing with vein 5 from slightly above middle of 

 discocellulars ; 10 and 11 stalked. 



3550. Percnia giraffata, Guen. Phal H, p. 20-5 ; C. $ 8. no. 3732. 



Rhyparia graiidaria, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. vi, p. 39 ; id. Reis. 

 Nov. pi. 129, fig. 28. 



cJ . White ; the collar and end of abdomen tinged with fulvous ; 

 head and thorax spotted with black ; abdomen with paired dorsal 

 and lateral spots and ventral bands. Fore wing with two subbasal 

 spots ; a large spot on costa ; three obliquely placed antemedial 

 spots, one at end of cell with spot on costa above it ; a double 

 postmedial series of irregular more or less confluent spots ; sub- 

 marginal and marginal series of spots, and some striae on outer 

 area. Hind wing with spot at base ; three antemedial spots ; 

 .postmedial, submarginal, and marginal series, and some striae on 

 outer area. 



Other specimens have the spots of the postmedial band of fore 

 wing disconnected ; the marginal spots larger and conjoined into 

 a band towards apex. 



Hob. Japan ; China ; Sikhim ; Burma. Exp. 85 millira. 



Genus OBEIDIA. 

 Obeidia, Wlk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1139 (1862). 



Type, 0. vagipardata, Wlk., from Northern China. 



Range. China ; Sikhim ; Nagas ; Penang. 



Palpi slender and reaching beyond the frons ; antennae of male 

 thickened by appressed serrations; hind tibiae with a fold con- 

 taining a tuft of hair; abdomen long and slender; wings long 

 and narrow ; male with fovea. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

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

 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; the disco- 

 cellulars angled ; 7 from before upper angle. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with vein 8 approximated to 7 to 

 half length of cell. 



3551. Obeidia tigrata, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 202 ; C. $ S. no. 3743. 

 Obeidia fumosa, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 389. 

 Obeidia lucifera, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 153. 



Fulvous orange, spotted with black. Fore wing with the spots 



