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usually leaving patches of ochreous on apical area and below 

 middle ; a marginal series of specks. Hind wing with discocellular 

 pot ; a postmedial line highly bent outwards and minutely dentate 

 between veins 5 and 2, then continued to anal angle as two 

 diffused bands ; the apical area suffused with purplish fuscous ; a 

 more or less complete marginal series of specks. 



Plagiatalis, which is probably the dry-season form, is smaller 

 with all the dark markings reduced ; fore wing with the bent-out 

 portion of the postmedial line reduced to specks and small dark 

 marks beyond it below apex and above inner margin. 



Hob. Formosa ; Sikhim ; Assam ; Karachi ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Amboina ; Sumbawa ; Timor Laut ; 

 Australia. Exp. : playiatalis, 24 ; iopasdlis, 26-36 millim. 



4972. Sylepta mysisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 634. 

 Gadessa impuralis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 167. 



Pale ochreous. Fore wing with oblique sinuous antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a spot in cell and discocellular lunule ; the post- 

 medial line excurved between veins 5 and 3, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and sinuous to inner margin ; a marginal 

 fuscous band narrowing to outer angle. Hind wing with disco- 

 cellular spot ; the postmedial line highly bent outwards between 

 veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal fuscous band slightly widest at apex. 



Hob. W. Africa ; Khasis ; Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



4973. Sylepta venustalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 199. 



c? . Differs from aurantiacalis in being orange. Fore wing with 

 the spot in cell, the ante- and postmedial lines, hind wing with 

 the discocellular spot and postmedial line, stronger and blacker ; no 

 fuscous on outer area except at apex of hind wing ; a series of 

 marginal fuscous specks and the cilia fuscous. 



Hob. Khasis. Eocp. 40 millim. 



4974. Sylepta nigriflava, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 199. 



c?. Differs from aurantiacalis in being orange. Fore wing 

 with no spot in cell ; the discocellular spot of both wings, the 

 antemedial line of fore wing, and postmedial line of both wings 

 blacker ; the outer area and margin unmarked. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 30 millim. 



4975. Sylepta dissipatalis, Led. Wi&n. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 474, pi. 11, 



fig. 13. 

 Samea quinquigera, Moore, Lep. A tk. p. 207, pi. 7, fig. 14 ; C. # & 



no. 4249. 



Fuscous brown with a cupreous tinge ; the collar and basal 

 segment of abdomen whitish ; some white before the anal tuft. 

 Fore wing with curved antemedial line; a diffused yellowish- 

 white patch inside it below the cell ; a quadrate spot in end of 

 cell ; the postmedial line slightly bent outwards between veins 5 

 and 2, then retracted to near the angle of cell, a large yellowish- 



