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portion ; an indistinct double minutely waved posttnedial line 

 excurved beyond cell ; some pale specks on costa towards apex ; 

 an irregularly dentate and sinuous submarginal pale line, with 

 gome dark dentate marks on its inner edge ; cilia rufous. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the cilia pale ; underside with discocellular spot. 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 50 millim. 



2429 a. Polydesma fraterna, Moore, is a small grey-brown form, 

 which may be a distinct species; male with a rounded lobe on 

 inner margin of fore wing. 



Hab. Khasis ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Australia. Encp. 

 48 millim. 



2431 a. Polydesma virens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 192. 



Differs from biformis in the thorax being mostly brown. Fore 

 wing with the green areas irrorated with black ; an irregularly 

 waved antemedial black line beyond the subbasal red-brown patch, 

 and an irregularly dentate curved line inside the postmedial red- 

 brown markings, which are continuous ; the medial line almost 

 obsolete; some subapical black streaks. Hind wing darker at 

 base, with irregularly sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Japan ; Sikhim. Exp. 48 millim. 



2439. Polydesma terminigera. Male with tuft of raised scales 

 on fore wing at base of costa and an oblique flap of raised scales 

 from middle of costa across end of cell. Bhutan. 



2450 a. Melipotis heliothidia, n. sp. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi and metathorax 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen with dorsal fuscous bands and two 

 pairs of lateral black spots. Fore wing grey irrorated with rufous ; 

 the inner margin whitish ; sinuous subbasal and antemedial in- 

 distinct brown lines, the latter with some blackish marks inside it ; 

 orbicular and renitorm white-edged, the latter obscured by a 

 diffused blackish patch extending to the costa ; a postmedial 

 minutely dentate rufous line incurved at vein 3 ; a submarginal 

 series of prominent dentate black and white spots and a series of 

 marginal black lunules. Hind wing white, with large black disco- 

 cellular spot ; an irregular submarginal black band interrupted at 

 vein 2 and diffused outwards along the veins to the marginal series 

 of black lunules. Underside of both wings with large black disco- 

 cellular spots. 



Hab. Bhuj, Cutch (Nurse). Exp. 36 millim. Type in B.M. 



2453 a. Lyncestis metaleuca, n. sp. 



d . Differs from amphix in the hind wing having no marginal 

 band ; a few marginal specks and the veins fuscous towards apex. 

 Uab. Bhui. Cutch (Nurse). Evp. 31 millim. Type in B. M. 



