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3594. Naxidia irrorata, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 251 ; C. $ S. no. 3591. 



cJ . Differs from punctata in the fore wing being thickly 

 irrorated with olive-fuscous ; the series of specks less prominent. 



$ . With the hind wing pale fuscous and with indistinct angled 

 postmedial and curved submarginal lines. 



Hob. Sikhim; Nagas. Exp., J 32, $ 40 millim. 



Genus DYSETHIA. 



Mvostonia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 346 (prroocc.). 

 Dysethia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 347. 



Type, D> bicommata, Warr. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nagas. 



Palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons, which is rounded ; 

 hind tibia3 with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with the costa 

 arched ; vein 1 a forming a large fork with 1 b ; 3 from near angle 

 of cell; vein 10 anastomosing with 11 and then with 8, 9 to form 

 the double areole. Hind wing of male with veins 1 a and b much 

 reduced by absorption of the margin ; 3, 4, 5 radiating from the 

 angle of the cell ; 6 from much below upper angle ; 8 connected 

 with 7 by an oblique bar : female with the inner area normal ; 

 vein 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle. 



SECT. I. (Dysetliid). Palpi thickly scaled; fore wing with the 

 outer margin very long. 



A. Antennce of male ciliated. 



3595. Dysethia bicommata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 348, pi. 32, 



fig.l. 



cJ . Purplish brown. Eore wing with the veins ochreous ; an 

 oblique dark antemedial line, slightly angled on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; a triangular medial patch on the costa, with a spot on 

 the discocellulars below it ; a curved postmedial line arising from 

 a triangular costal patch ; an indistinct pale dentate submarginal 

 line. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous, and with an oblique 

 diffused postmedial line. 



2 . Hind wing darker, with the postmedial line well denned. 



Hal. Sikhim ; Nagas. Exp., <$ 38, $ 42 miUim. 



B. Antennce of male bipectinated with short stiff branches. 



3596. Dysethia ocyptaria, 

 Swinh. A.M.N. H. (6) 

 xii, p. 157. 



c? . Differs from bicommata 

 in being darker ; fore wing with 

 the veins dark, the lines and 



triangular patches obscured ; 

 ff. 165. Dysethia ocyptana, 3 . 4. ^ ,9 j r -, , 



the hind wing darker. 



Hal. Sikhim; Khasis; Nagas. Exp. 36 millim. 



