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Genus Absala, nov. 



S ? . Costa arched, inner margin slightly rounded, more 

 than two thirds length of costa, outer margin nearly as long 

 as inner, slightly rounded, scalloped between the veins in 

 both wings. Hind wings with the apex rounded ; venation 

 of botli wings normal, except that vein 5 of hind wings is 

 emitted very close to the top of the cell. Antennaj in both 

 sexes bipectinated to the tip with short bristles, slightly 

 shorter in the female than in the male. Hind tibise with 

 two pairs of spurs. 



Differs from the genus Pachyodes {ty[)e hcematari'u, H.-Sch.) 

 in its longer and rounder wings, in the closeness of the origin 

 of vein 5 of hind wings to the top of the cell ; the pectinations 

 of the male are similar, but the female of Pachyodes has 

 simple antennge. 



Ahsala dorcada. 



S 'i ' Of a uniform milky-white colour ; antennae reddish 

 ochreous, palpi with bright chestnut-red hairs, fore and middle 

 legs of tlie same colour, front of head ochreous ; wings striated 

 with olive-grey, more densely in the outer portions, forming 

 discal and submarginal bands on the hind wings. Fore wings 

 with a small patch of olive-grey on costa before the middle 

 and four or five large patches at the apex ; olive-grey mar- 

 ginal lunules to both wings, and the large black cell-spots of 

 the underside show'ing through the wings, and a black spot on 

 the hind wings on the space where the spot from the under- 

 side can be seen. Underside pure white ; base of both wings 

 and thorax and hind legs suffused with bright ochreous ; 

 costa of fore wings marked with black, some black patches 

 and black marginal lunules at apex, a large round black spot 

 at end of each cell, one in the first median interspace of fore 

 wings, and two large and similar spots on the disk of the 

 hind wings, one towards the apex and the other near the 

 abdominal margin. 



Expanse of wings 2y^o inches. 



Type: Khasia Hills. In B.M. 



Genus Episothalma, nov. 



cJ . Fore wing more or less falcate, with costa arched before 

 the apex, outer margin excavated below the apex, produced at 

 end of excavation above the middle, from whence it is oblique 

 to tlie inner angle, which is somewhat acute, scalh^ped be- 

 tween the veins J inner margin very slightly rounded, nearly 



