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In the Japanese fixseni, Brem., there are no secondary sexual 

 characters on the fore wing ; in dotata, Linn., from Europe, flavata, 

 agnes, BntL, and another undescribed species from Japan, vein 2 

 of the fore wing is much curved in the male, with a small hair- 

 fringed hyaline scar below its middle, through the centre of which 

 runs the aborted vein 1 c, which is much bent, bearing a row of 

 sharp spines probably for producing sound ; below this scar is a 

 large shallow fovea, slightly developed injlavata, more strongly in 

 rtgnes, which has the discocellulars of hind wing angled and vein 5 

 from below their middle, as is the case also in dotata. 



3741. Gandaritis flavata, Moore, P.Z.S. 1867, p. 660; Waterh. Aid, 

 pi. 184, fig. 7 ; C.SfS. no. 3836. 



<$ . Bright orange-yellow. Fore wing slightly suffused with 

 fuscous, except on the apical costal area, which is paler yellow; 

 tw r o indistinct subbasal waved lines ; a medial line sinuous from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; traces of a 

 line beyond it ; a postmedial line with traces of a line inside it, 

 very highly angled on vein 5, where it is met by an oblique streak 





Fig. 181. Gandaritis flavata, 



from apex ; traces of a pale waved submarginal line. Hind wing 

 with traces of waved and curved medial and postmedial lines. 



In the Chinese specimen on the hind wing a curved black medial 

 band is developed, running up the median nervure to the base, and 

 prominent lunulate, black, postmedial and submarginal bands. 



Hal). Nankow Pass, China ; Khasis. Exp. 76 rnillim. 



Genus PHYSETOBASIS, nov. 



Type, P. annulate, Hmpsn. 



Eange. N. W. Himalayas ; Khasis ; Nilgiris. 



Palpi slender and hardly reaching beyond the frons, which is 

 rounded ; antennae of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; 

 hind tibiaa with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing narrow and elon- 

 gate ; the outer margin very oblique ; male with the retinaculum 

 a large spatulate plate ; a deep groove on the underside at base of 



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