SYLEPTA. 337 



4979. Sylepta deficiens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 556. pi. 215, tiff. 12 : 



C. $ S. no. 4269. 



Fuscous brown ; palpi white below ; underside of thorax and 

 abdomen white; wings of a silky texture. Fore wing with an 

 obliquely curved anteruedial line ; a speck in cell and discocellular 

 lunule ; a postmedial minutely waved line with large ochreous 

 white lunule on it below costa and bent inwards along vein 2. 

 Hind wing with discocellular speck ; an indistinct postmedial line 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 and obscurely outlined with 

 whitish. 



Hal}. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Ceylon. Eocp. 26 millim. 



b 2 . Retinaculum of male formed by a fan of Large white scales. 



4980. Sylepta paucistrialis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 139. 



c? . Pale ochreous. Pore wing with the base of costa narrowly 

 black ; a fuscous antemedial spot on inner margin ; a discocellular 

 spot ; a postmedial line extremely and very irregularly dentate 

 from vein 6 to inner margin, some of the dentitions nearly reaching 

 outer margin. Hind wing whitish, with a fuscous postmedial line 

 between veins 6 and 2 and a slight marginal line. 



Hob. Bhutan ; Khasis. Eocp. 20 millim. 



b'. (Pleuroptya). Thorax of male with a fan of large scales from 

 origin of hind wing below. 



4981. Sylepta aurantiacalis, Fisch. v. Rdstl. Schmett. p. 213, pi. 75, 



tig. 3. 



Botys crocealis, Dup. Lep. Fr. viii, pt. 2, p. 365, pi. 235, fig. 6. 

 Botys aurea, Bittl III. Het. iii, p. 76, pi. 59, fig. 12 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4046. 

 Hapalia fraterna, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 338, pi. 183, fig. 9 ; 



C. $ S. no. 4093. 



Ochreous with a fulvous tinge ; palpi fulvous, white below. 

 Pore wing with obliquely sinuous antemedial fuscous line ; a spot 

 in cell and discocellular lunule ; the postmedial line straight from 

 costa to vein 5, bent outwards and minutely dentate between veins 

 5 and 2, then recurved to origin of vein 3 and sinuous to inner 

 margin ; a more or less prominent marginal fuscous band, broad at 

 apex, narrowing to near outer angle, where it expands into a patch. 

 Hind wing with discocellular speck ; a postmedial line highly bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal band, broad at apex, 

 then narrowing and becoming maculate. Thorax with the fan of 

 scales pale. 



Hob. S. Europe ; Japan ; China ; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma. Eocp. 34-36 millim. 



4982. Sylepta pernitescens, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 203. 

 Pleuroptya fuscalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 165. 



c? . Differs from sdbinusalis in being darker, with a slight fulvous 



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