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ments of abdomen dark. Fore wing with the costa purplish ; an 

 oblique purple band from three-fourths length of costa to outer 

 angle. Hind wing with cell-speck and purple medial line ; both 

 wings with the margin purple and the cilia bright golden orange. 

 Hob. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 20 millim. 



B. Fore wing not produced at apex ; the costa smoothly scaled ; hind 

 wing with the outer margin slightly angled at vein 4. 



3923. Chrysocraspeda marginata, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, 



p. 182. 



c? . Ochreous, with purplish-red irroration ; head purplish red. 

 Pore wing, with the costa purplish ; indistinct waved antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines, the last with a series of specks on it ; 

 a discocellular speck. Hind wing with sinuous red ante- and post- 

 medial lines ; a discocellular speck ; both wings with the margin 

 purple ; the cilia pink. 



Hob. Khasis ; Burma. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus EPHYRA. 



Ephyra, Dup. Up. France, iv, 2, p. 108 (1829). 

 Cosymbia, Hilbn. Verz. p. 302 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Leucophthalmia, Hilbn. Verz. p. 302. 



Type, E. pendularia. Linn. 



Range. Nearctic and Palaearctic regions ; throughout India and 

 Ceylon; Java; Celebes. 



Palpi hardly reaching beyond the frons; antennae of male 

 bipectinated to two-thirds length. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle,. 

 10 and 11 anastomosing strongly with them to form the small 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. 



The typical section has the medial pair of spurs of hind tibiae 

 absent in the male. 



SECT. II. Hind tibiae of male with the medial pair of spurs 

 present ; the branches of antennae longer. 



3924. Ephyra invexata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1497 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 199, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 3553. 

 Ephyra monochromata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1754. 

 Ephyra quieta, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 856, pi. 56, fig. 1 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 3555. 

 Ephyra maculifascia, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. Ill, pi. 151, fig. 9. 



Mustard-yellow, more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 frons fuscous brown. Fore wing with traces of ante- and post- 

 medial series of specks, the latter excurved beyond cell ; a white- 

 centred black annulus at end of cell. Hind wing with annulus at 

 end of cell and curved series of specks. 



In the form maculifascia the discocellular spots have no pale 

 centres and the series of black specks are prominent ; in quieta a 



