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Genus LUMA. 



Luma, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 121 (1863). 

 Pelena, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 386 (1886). 

 Loxocorys, Meyr. Tram. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 6. 



Type, L. anticalis, Wlk., from Borneo. 



Range. Japan ; Khasis ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching above vertex of head and 

 slightly scaled in front, the 3rd well developed and acuminate ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons oblique ; vertex of head with rough 

 hair ; antennae of male thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the 

 outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing broad ; 

 the apex rounded ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 remote 

 from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of 

 wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from near angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



The typical species in male has a small tooth at middle of costa 

 which is thickened below, the base of veins 8, 9, 10 swollen and 

 11 almost obsolete. 



4720. Luma flavalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 171, pi. 173, fig. 14. 



. Pale orange-yellow ; palpi and extremity of abdomen tinged 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with the basal area fulvous except 

 towards costa, followed by a yellow band with a whitish patch on it 

 below median nervure ; a large fuscous patch on outer half of 

 wing extending from end of cell and inner margin to near outer 

 margin at middle, then to the subcostals, its edge below the costa 

 sinuous. Hind wing whitish, with faint curved postmedial diffused 

 fuscous shade. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



4721. Luma unicolor, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 386, pi. 184, fig. 16 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 4705. 

 Lygropia uniformis, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 171, pi. 173, fig. 7. 



$ . Uniform fulvous yellow, without the slightest trace of 

 markings or shade of any other colour. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



4722. Luma sericea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 451. 



Fuscous brown ; palpi white at base ; frons grey. Fore wing 



with indistinct curved sinuous 



anteme di a i lin^he met iiai part of 



costa ochreous ; a dark discocel- 

 lular lunule with ochreous spot 



on ^ s outer ec fe e ; an ^distinct 

 postmedial line, excurved between 

 veins 6 and 3, slightly outlined 

 Fig. l?A.-Luma sericea, 3. \. ^ ochreous, and with large 



ochreous spot beyond it on costa ; cilia ochreous except between 



