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and sending teeth inwards on veins 2 and 1 ; an indistinct pale 

 crenulate submarginal line. Hind wing with antemedial line 

 produced to an angle at lower end of cell; the postniedial line 

 angled at vein 4, then dentate to inner margin ; a crenulate grey 

 submarginal line. 



Hab. Dharmsala (HocJciny). Exp. 30 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus POMASIA. 



Pomasia, Guen. Phal. i, p. 427 (1857). 

 Leiocera, Hmpsn, III. Ret. ix, p. 152 (1893). 



Type, P. psylaria, Guen. 



Range. K basis; JN"agas ; Ceylon; Mergui; Borneo. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint reaching beyond the short sharp 

 frontal tuft, the 3rd long and naked ; antenna of male minutely 

 ciliated ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked, 

 10 anastomosing with 8, 9 to form the areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars, 

 which are angled, 6, 7 stalked. 



3745. Pomasia psylaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 428; Moore, Lep. Ceyl in, 



pi. 200, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 4005. 



Bright rufous ; head, thorax, and abdomen banded with greyish 



white. Fore wing with the 

 costa orange, with black patches 

 and striga3 ; a grey fascia below 

 the costa ; a basal grey spot ; 

 six irregularly waved grey lines 

 outlined in black; the veins 

 streaked with grey and black ; 

 1ft3 outer margin orange, with black 



Pomasia p%laa, 3. *. patches at veins 2 and 4. Hind 



wing with a basal grey spot ; 

 five waved grey lines outlined in black ; the outer margin orange, 

 with a black patch at vein 4. Underside suffused with pale fuscous. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp., J 28, $ 32 millim. 



3746. Pomasia reticulata, n. sp. 



$ . Bright orange ; head, thorax, and abdomen spotted with 

 black. Fore wing with double subbasal, antemedial, medial, post- 

 niedial, and submarginal waved dark lines connected in many 

 places by irregular, rectangular, or stellate blotches ; a dentate 

 line just inside the margin and two spots on the margin. Hind 

 wing with antemedial, medial, postniedial, and submarginal double 

 waved lines with a few blotches on them ; a dentate line close to 

 the margin and two spots on the margin. 



Hab. Mergui (Doherty}. Exp. 24 millim. Type in coll. Druce 



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