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A variety has the whole of the wings suffused with fuscous,- 

 leaving the costa of fore wing and cilia of both wings yellow. 



Hob. Japan; Dharmsala; Sikhim ; Bombay; Nilgiris; Ceylon; 

 Rangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male with the basal joint excised and with 

 slight tuft of hair from inner side ; fore wing less produced at 

 apex ; the costa highly arched before middle : hind wing with 

 the inner area clothed with long hair; patagia extending 

 beyond metathorax. 



5087. Thliptoceras stygiale, n. sp. 



c? . Uniform black-brown ; palpi below, pectus, and abdomen 

 below white. Fore wing with faint traces of postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 3, then retracted to below end of cell ; 

 hind wing with traces of obliquely curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Nagas (Doherty). Exp. 26 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



SECT. III. (Prophantis). Antenna of male ciliated. 



5088. Thliptoceras octoguttale, Fdd. Reis. Nov. pi. 135, fig. 38 ; 



C. # & no. 4122. 

 Pyralis smaragdina, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, p. 411. 



Head and thorax purplish brown; abdomen fulvous, the anal 

 tuft orange. Fore wing purplish brown; a hyaline dark-edged 

 speck in cell ; two obliquely placed medial spots and a spot beyond 

 the cell, each with an orange spot on the costa above it ; the costa 

 orange at apex ; a marginal orange band, narrow from costa to 

 vein 5, then broad and narrowing to outer angle. Hind wing 

 purplish brown, with indistinct waved medial line and marginal 

 orange band, broad and with a purplish spot on it at apex and 

 narrowing to anal angle. 



Hob. Natal ; Sikhiui ; Sibsagar ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo ;, 

 Amboina ; Australia. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus ARCHERNIS. 



Archernis, Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i, p. 254 (1887). 

 Protonoceras, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 475 (1890). 

 Metoportha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 463. 



Type, A. callixaniha^ Meyr., from the Malayan region and New 

 Guinea. 



Range. Formosa ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Malayan sub- 

 region to New Guinea. 



Palpi porrect, long and straight, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 below, the 3rd joint prominent ; maxillary palpi long and slightly 

 dilated with scales ; f rons rounded ; tibi with the outer spurs half 



