BLEPTINA. — BELONEPHOLIS. 89 



BLEPTINA, Gum. 

 Bleptina dubia. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 4.) 



9 . Brownish grey : primaries darker than the secondaries ; a dusky trisinuated line 

 aeross the basal fourth and an irregularly-uudulated central line followt-d immediately by a 

 pale band from costa to inner margin ; a zigzag discal series of vliitc points; a grey apical 

 oblique streak ; a marginal series of conical blackish spots followed by a pale Hue at the base 

 of the fringe : secondaries with similar marginal spots and fringe. Primaries below pale grey ; 

 costa darker, with three whitish dots towards ape.'c ; marginal spots black : secondaries whitish, 

 especially towards the basi-abdominal area ; a discocellular spot and two ill-defined bands 

 across the disc greyish brown ; margin and fringe as in primaries. Body greyish white. 

 Expanse of wings 35 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar in September and October. 



Unfortunately there are only four slightly worn female examples of this species in ^Ir. 

 Hocking's collection. 



EGNASIA, Walk. 



Egnasia cmerea. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 1.) 



Closely allied to E. vaya {" Thermesiu " vaga) from Silhet, but slightly larger and of a 

 greyish ash-colour, slightly tinted with browu and with white or whitish-edged black markings 

 (JS. i;o^fl, on the other hand, is lilacine grey varied with ferruginous and ochraeeous; the 

 markings less black) ; in pattern it chiefly difl'ers in having larger and more prominent 

 discoidal spots ; the two lines beyond the cell much wider apart in the primaries, but rather 

 closer together in the secondaries ; the white submarginal line broadly bordered internally 

 with a diffused black and dark grey shade; and the fringes more distinctly black-spotted. 

 Expanse of wings 40 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



EPIPASCiriID.ll. 



BELONEPHOLIS, gen. nov. 



General form of Cardamyla : costal vein of primaries running to beyoud the middle of 

 costa ; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch emitted at about the basal third, running 

 close to the main vein to about the apical third, and thence obliquely upwards to costa, the 

 second starting just beyond the first and running to about the apical fourth, the third and 

 fourth forming a short apical furca and forming a fork with the fifth, which starts about 



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