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and the veins slightly streaked with fuscous ; a black spot at lower 

 angle of cell; an oblique fuscous line from apex to vein 2; a 

 marginal series of black specks. Hind wing ochreous white. 



. Fuscous brown ; the hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hob. JNTagas ; Calcutta ; Ceylon ; Rangoon : Borneo ; Java. 

 Exp., <$ 18-22, $ 34 rnillim. 



4269. Schcenobius auristrigellus, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 916. 



c? . White ; palpi and shoulders golden yellow ; abdomen 

 slightly tinged with fuscous and with a dorsal yellow patch on 

 1st segment. Fore wing with golden-yellow fasciae in the inter- 

 spaces ; a black spot at lower angle of cell ; an oblique yellow line 

 from apex to middle of inner margin. Hind wing pure white. 



Hat>. Bhutan. Exp. 24 millim. 



4270. Schcenobius costalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 388, pi. 184, %. 15; 



C. Sf S. no. 4653. 



d . Almost pure shining white ; palpi pale rufous ; pectus and 

 legs fuscous. Fore wing with the costa black ; underside of fore 

 wing suffused with fuscous. 



Nab. Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus CIRRHOCHRISTA. 



Cirrhochrista, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 440. 



Type, G. cetherialis, Led., from Amboina and Ternate. 



Range. Japan ; Oriental region to N. Australia. 



Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, the 3rd joint hidden 

 by hair and downcurved; maxillary palpi long and triangularly 

 scaled at extremity ; frons oblique ; antennae ciliated ; tibiae clothed 

 on outer side with rough hair, the outer spurs less than half the 

 length of inner. Fore wing with the apex produced ; the outer 

 margin oblique ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 curved and 

 very closely approximated for a short distance to, or well separated 

 from, 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing with- 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



SECT I. Palpi projecting about the length of head and 

 with a tuft of porrect hair from 1st joint. 



4271. Cirrhochrista pulchellalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 441, 



pi. 17, fig. 10. 

 Cirrhochrista setherialis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 46 (nee Led.). 



White ; palpi, antennae, collar, and shoulders fulvous ; abdomen 

 with dorsal maculate band, the spots on 1st two segments small, 

 then very large. Fore wing with the costa fulvous; an out- 

 wardly oblique dark-edged fulvous antemedial band expanding 

 on inner margin; a dark-edged triangular fulvous patch from 



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