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postmedial line arising from costa beyond middle, oblique to vein o, 

 where it is angled, then nearly straight to inner margin near the 

 curved orange submarginul line ; some black marginal specks above 

 outer angle. Hind wing smoky black, with marginal series of 

 black striae ; the cilia white. Underside with the basal two-thirds 

 suffused with smoky black. 



$ . Abdomen white; fore wing with the postmedial line almost 

 obsolete ; hind wing white, slightly suffused with fuscous below 

 cell ; underside slightly suffused with fuscous at base of wings. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp., 6 50, $ 60 millim. 



4216. Eschata percandida, Sicinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 293. 



$ . Silvery white ; abdomen with the two basal segments orange 

 above. Fore wing with indistinct orange postmedial line excurved 

 beyond cell and double from lower angle of cell to inner margin, 

 the area beyond it irrorated with small rufous scales to the in- 

 distinct curved orange postmedial line, which is double from veia 5 

 to inner margin ; a marginal series of black specks. 

 Hab. Rangoon. Exp. 42 millim. 



4217. Eschata ochripes, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 143, pi. 156, 



tig. 23. 



c? . Silvery white ; palpi black at base ; antenna? fulvous ; legs 

 orange fringed with white hair ; abdomen fuscous above, the first 

 two segments orange. Fore wing uniform white, irrorated with a 

 few black scales on outer area. Hind \ving suffused with fuscous 

 except the costal and outer areas. Underside of fore wing with 

 diffused black streaks on costal area and median nervure beyond 

 cell. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus MESOLIA. 

 Mesolia, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 282. 



Type, M. pandavella, Rag. 



Range. N. America ; W. Indies ; China ; India ; Ceylon. 



Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending about 

 twice the length of head; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled; 

 frons with a conical projection ; antennae of male thickened and 

 flattened ; tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of 

 inner. Fore wing>long and narrow, the apex rounded ; veins 4, 5 

 from angle of cell; 3 absent; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free; the 

 outer margin produced from apex to vein 5. Hind wins: with 

 Vfiii ,'3 absent ; 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; the 

 up PIT margin of cell widely separated from 8, 7 curving upwards 

 to anastomose with 8. 



