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which has also some brown strigae on the margin. Hind wing 

 with the basal half ochreous ; a postmedial diffused brown band, 

 with white and silver band on it ; the outer area white, with a 

 marginal series of brown lunules. Underside with the basal half 

 of fore wing brown ; a brown postmedial band to each wing. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus STAMNODES. 

 Stamnodes, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 515 (1857). 



Type, S. pauperaria, Eversm., from Central Asia. 



Range. N. America ; Altai ; N.W. Himalayas. 



Palpi slight and porrect; antennae of male slightly thickened 

 and flattened : hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from above angle of 

 cell;* 7 from beyond the areole; 10 anastomosing with 11, and 

 then with 7, 8, 9 to form the double areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; the disco- 

 cellulars angled and veins 6, 7 stalked. 



3852. Stamnodes pamphilata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 132, fig. 34 ; C. $ & 



no. 3885. 



Fulvous orange ; head, thorax, abdomen, and basal area of both 

 wings suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with the costa fuscous, 



with four white spots on it ; 

 an oblique triangular fuscous 

 postmedial patch from costa 

 extending to vein 4 ; the apical 

 area fuscous, narrowing to 

 outer angle. Hind wing with 

 the margin narrowly fuscous ; 

 cilia of both wings chequered 



Fig. 198. white and fuscous. Underside 



Stamnodes pamphilata, A . \. , c ,, 



with the base or tore wing 



suffused with fuscous ; the dark markings and the whole of hind 

 wing brown, grizzled with white. 



Hab. Kulu; Thundiani; Dharmsala. Exp.,<$ 34, $ 42 millim. 



Genus STERRHA. 



Sterrha, Herr.-Schaffer, Eur. Schmett. iii, p. 108 (1847) (nee Hubn.} 

 Pseudosterrha, Warr. P. Z. & 18H8, p. 3^4. 

 Rhodometra, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 75. 



Type, S. sacraria, Linn. 



Range. Europe ; Africa ; the N.W. Himalayas, Khasis, and 

 throughout the plains of India. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint roughly scaled, the 3rd minute ; 

 antennae of male bipectinated to three-fourths length ; hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 



