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beyond them toothed below costa ; outer area with some indistinct 

 crenulate lines and a subapical pale speck. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, with a very large bright orange apical patch extending 

 down to vein 4 and pale at the costa. Both wings with marginal 

 black line. Underside with diffused orange postmedial band on 

 fore wing. 



$ . Greyer, with the basal half of the fore wing blackish. 



Hob. N.W. and E. Himalayas; Sylhet. Exp. 52 millim. 



3731. Photoscotosia obliquisignata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867. p. 657: 



C. fy S. no. 3823. 



cJ. Differs from miniosata in being black-brown. Pore wing 

 with all the lines pale ; the subbasal line straight and oblique ; the 

 antemedial line angled on median nervure ; a diffused pale brown 

 patch from middle of costa to middle of postmedial line, which is 

 not toothed below costa, but excurved at middle and with white 

 specks on it at veins 2, 3, and 4 ; the lines beyond it sinuous ; an 

 oblique pale streak from apex and no subapical spot ; a pale sub- 

 marginal line. Underside of fore wing with the costal spot joined 

 to the apical patch ; an ochreous spot at apex. Hind wing with 

 an apical fuscous patch and no postmedial line. 



2 with an oblique white patch from costa of fore wing to lower 

 angle of cell, instead of the large pale brown patch. Hind wing 

 with the costal area fuscous, the apical orange patch being reduced. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 54 millim. 



3732. Photoscotosia nubilata, Moore, Lep, Atk. p. 274; C. $ S. 



no. 3822. 



<$ . Dark brown. Fore wing with numerous waved grey lines 

 on the basal area ; a broad rufous medial band with waved edges ; 

 some grey suffusion with waved lines on it beyond the band and 

 running out to a point below apex ; three submarginal white 

 specks below apex. Hind wing with the costal area yellowish 

 white ; the cilia ochreous at apex. 



A variety has the apical area of hind wing, except the extreme 

 apex, dark ; the underside more fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 48 millim. 



3733. Photoscotosia fulguritis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 370, pi. 30, 



fig. 11. 

 Photoscotosia keraria, Surinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 224. 



c? . Black-brown, with a very slight rufous tinge. Fore wing 

 with traces of numerous waved black lines ; a curved subbasal 

 grey line ; the medial area defined by whitish waved lines, the 

 inner line highly dentate on median nervure, the outer angled on 

 vein 4 ; an indistinct pale submarginal line crossed by an oblique 

 white streak from apex. Hind wing fuscous ; the costal area 

 down to vein 4 whitish ; an indistinct pale waved submarginal line. 



5 with almost the whole hind wing fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 46 millim. 



