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4454. Locastra crassipennis, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 558 ; C. $ 8. no. 1926. 

 Locastra maimonalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 159. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing clothed with olive-yellow, 

 rufous, and fuscous scales, the last with rufous basal and discal 



Fig. 69. Locastra crassipennis, 



patches ; dentate black ante- and postmedial lines, the latter highly 

 excurved round end of cell ; a black spot in end of cell ; the outer 

 area olive-yellow, with a marginal series of black striae ; the cilia 

 rufous and fuscous. Hind wing of male pale with slight rufous 

 tinge : of female fuscous brown. 



Hob. Sylhet ; Borneo. Exp. 9 c? 40, $ 50 millim. 



B. (Taurica). Male with the process on basal joint of antennae much 

 smaller; mid tibice clothed with long hair, but without the thick 

 curved scales. 



4455. Locastra nmscosalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1269. 



Taurica sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 202 ; C. $ S. no. 4482. 

 Locastra cristalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 157, pi. 172, fig. 24. 



Differs from crassipennis in being rufous and fuscous, with a 

 slight green tinge but no olive-yellow shades. Fore wing with 

 the antemedial line straighter ; no spot in end of cell ; the post- 

 medial line more bent inwards at vein 2. Hind wing fuscous in 

 both sexes and with traces of a pale dentate postmedial line. 



Hob. N. China; Sikhim; Nagas; Ceylon; Rangoon. Exp., 



46 millim. 



SECT. II. Male with no process from basal joint of antennae or 

 glandular lobe on cost a of fore wing, a patch of thick brown 

 scales on underside below cell ; hind wing very broad, with a 

 patch of thick brown scales in cell above ; abdomen with the 

 claspers very large and large paired genital tufts. 



4456. Locastra pachylepidalis, n. sp. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green irrorated with white $ 

 patagia fringed with rufous hair ; genital tufts rufous. Fore wing 

 dark green, the medial area irrorated with white; some white 

 .scales at base ; the outer area irrorated with black ; two dark spots 



