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nervure, the interno-median fold, and vein 1 streaked with 

 black. 



Hob. China ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp., <$ 38-44. $ 48 miUim. 



Genus ORYBINA. 



Orybina, Snell. Tijds. v. Ent. xxxviii, p. 107. 

 Oryba, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 10 (1863), prseocc. 



Type, O.flaviplaya, Wlk. 



Range. Himalayas; Burma. 



Palpi of male rostriform, about twice the length of head, trian- 

 gularly scaled, hollowed out inside, and with the apex very acute ; 

 in female more slender, and three to four times the length of 

 head ; maxillary palpi minute in male, filiform and upturned in 

 female ; frons smooth ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tibiae 

 moderately hairy. Fore wing with the costa arched near base 

 and apex, and slightly excised at middle, the apex produced ; the 

 outer margin excised below apex, then excurved, and oblique 

 towards outer angle ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle; the discocellulars arising from the subcostal nervure at 

 origin of vein 11, so that veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are stalked. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked ; the costa excised at middle in male. 



4618. Orybina flaviplaga, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 4729. 



c? . Flesh-pink. Fore wing slightly suffused with fuscous, and 

 the inner area with orange-red; a large golden-yellow patch 

 slightly outlined with crimson from the discocellulars halfway to 

 outer margin, bounded by veins 5 and 11, and with a diffused 

 .fuscous patch beyond it ; an obliquely curved antemedial dark 



Fig. 107. Orybina flaviplaga, $. 



line ; an inwardly-oblique crenulate fuscous line from the fuscous 

 patch to middle of inner margin. Hind wing pale ; the area from 

 lower angle of cell to outer margin at apex and vein 2 orange-red, 

 with the dark postmedial line on it. Underside with the apical 

 area of fore wing grey. 



$ . Flesh-pink, without the orange-red suffusion ; fore wing 

 with the antemedial line more oblique and produced as a dark 

 streak along vein 1 to outer margin ; hardly a trace of the dark 

 patch beyond the yellow patch. 



