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natch with white edges on the costa shaped like two cones apex to 

 apex; a white-edged grey mark on inner margin shaped like a 

 " cottage-loaf " ; a sinuous submarginal white line interrupted in 

 places and with some fuscous suffusion inside it ; cilia grey and 

 fuscous. Hind wing with a series of black specks on the cilia ; 

 underside with cell-speck and waved postmedial line. 

 Hal. Sikhim, 10,000 feet. Exp. 34 millim. 



3721. Larentia niveopicta, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 372, pi. 30, fig. 5. 



Head white, the antennae and sides of palpi black ; thorax white, 

 with the front part of tegulaa black ; abdomen black, the basal 

 segment white. Pore wing chestnut ; a broad black antemedial 

 oand with waved white edges, dentate on median nervure and 

 conjoined to the very irregular white-edged black postmedial 

 band, which narrows towards inner margin and has two white 

 costal strigse on it, its outer edge dentate at vein 6 and bi sinuate 

 between veins 2 and 4; a very irregularly waved white sub- 

 marginal line, the area beyond it chocolate at apex, black below 

 apex ; white at middle and outer angle. Hind wing white ; traces 

 of a sinuous postmedial line ; the apex fuscous and some fuscous 

 suffusion near anal angle ; underside irrorated with black ; well 

 marked ante- and postmedial lines. 



Hal). Sikhim, 10,000 feet. Exp., <3 36, $ 40 millim. 



3722. Larentia lateritiata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 273; C. fyS. no. 3808. 



c?. Differs from cuprearia in the fore wing not having the 

 fringes of hair on underside in cell and on vein 4; upperside with 

 the line denning the inner side of the medial area curved and 

 approaching the subbasal line at inner margin. 



Hal. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



b 2 . Male ivith a dense fringe of long downwardly directed hair on 

 underside of fore wing in the cell from below subcostal nervure, 

 and along vein 4 met by a sparse fringe of upwardly directed 

 hair from below median nervure. 



3723. Larentia cuprearia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 656 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3807. 



c? . Rather pale rufous ; abdomen with slight black dorsal 

 segmental bands. Fore wing with traces of numerous minutely 

 waved lines; the basal area denned by a dark oblique straight 

 line ; the medial area by an oblique straight line on its inner edge, 

 and a crenulate line angled below vein 4 on its outer edge ; an 

 indistinct submarginal crenulate grey line. Hind wing white ; 

 the margin and cilia at anal angle brownish. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



