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Nilgiri^ specimens have the dark edges to the markings and 

 the marginal band more prominent than spesimens from other 

 localities. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Sumatra. Exp. 18-20 millim. 



C. Hind wing of male with fringes of hair along veins 2, 3, 4 on 

 underside; the apical area clothed with thick fulvous scales; 

 the inner margin with a lobe fringed with very long liair ; the 

 anal area clothed with hair ; abdomen with paired tufts of Uack 

 hair from base; the hind tibice fringed with Uackish tufts on 

 outer side. 



4668. Ambia lobophoralis, n. sp. 



3 . Bright fulvous ; head, thorax, and base of abdomen striped 

 with white, the last with dark rings towards extremity. Eore wing 

 with large white subbasal patch ; black streaks on costa and sub- 

 costals to beyond end of cell ; a white spot in end of cell and white 

 streaks beyond upper and lower angles ; two brown submarginal 

 lines, with white patch inside it below costa, the lines curving 

 inwards below vein 2 and enclosing a pale band between them, 

 expanding into a large white spot above inner margin ; the margin 

 yellow ; a dark line through the cilia. Hind wing more orange ; 

 a white basal patch with diffused fuscous on its outer edge ; a white 

 spot above the lobe ; a series of black spots just inside the margin, 

 with a black line on their inner side, obsolescent, except towards 

 costa ; a black streak with white spot inside it above anal angle ; a 

 black line through the cilia. 



Hob. Sikhim (Pilcher) ; Nagas (Doherty). Exp. 18 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



Genus OLIGOSTIGMA. 



Oligostigma, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 260 (1854). 



Type, O.junceale, G-uen., from N. America. 



Range. The tropical and warmer temperate zones. 



Differs from Nymphula in the outer margin of hind wing being 

 excised below apex, then lobed ; the ocelli usually not so prominent. 



In the typical species vein 10 of the fore wing sometimes arises 

 from the cell. 



SECT. I. Mid tibiae of male without groove and tuft. 



A. Antennce of male not thickened and flattened. 

 a. Hind legs of male without tufts of hair on the coxae. 



4669. Oligostigma hapilista, Svrinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 20, pi. i, 



fig- 11. 

 Oligostigma albidivisa, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 221. 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous and grey ; abdomen fulvous, the 

 basal segment white. Fore wing with the basal half fuscous ; the 

 basal two-thirds of costa orange ; a dark-edged triangular orange 



