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The Bhutan specimen has the basal area of fore wing, the marginal 

 area, and the apical area of hind wing prominently dark. 



Hob. Punjab; Bhutan; Calcutta; Ceylon; Java. Exp. 16- 

 22 millim. 



4767. Massepha bengalensis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 211; C. $ S. 



no. 4428. 



Pure white ; thorax with black-brown spots ; legs and abdomen 

 banded with black. Tore wing with three series of black spots on 

 iasal area ; a discocellular spot ; a postmedial spot on costa ; a 

 postmedial line nearly straight from costa to vein 3, then retracted 

 to lower angle of cell ; a small spot on the cilia below apex and 

 two larger spots above outer angle. Hind wing with subbasal 

 spot ; a diffused oblique antemedial band with a discocellular spot 

 beyond it and met at inner margin by a sinuous postmedial band 

 arising from a spot on costa and sending streaks inwards below 

 cell ; a sinuous submarginal band and a marginal band. 



Hob. Calcutta; Khasis. Exp. 20 millim. 



SECT. II. Hind wing with the outer margin evenly curved. 



4768. Massepha carbonalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 148. 



c? . Uniform glossy black-brown. 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus ATJLACOPTERA, nov. 



Type, A. fuscinerualis, Swinh. 



Range. Assam. 



Palpi upturned and slender, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd long and acuminate ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae annulate ; tibise with the outer spurs about 

 two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated ; male with vein 11 curved and 

 running round a furrow of somewhat ribbed membrane below the 

 costa. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4769. Aulacoptera fuscinervalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 300. 



c? . Whitish suffused with pale 

 brown ; palpi fuscous at sides. 

 Fore wing with the veins streaked 

 with brown ; three dark spots on 

 costa ; an ill-defined antemedial 

 line angled on median nervure ; 

 152 a streak beyond discocellulars ; 



Aulacoptera fwimwalis, rf. i. postmedial line, composed 



of a series of short streaks, 

 very highly excurved from costa to vein 3, then retracted to 



