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dered diffused black submarginal wavy line ; a double lunular discal 

 line, and two short subbasal bands, their interspaces being somewhat 

 dusky, each being equidistant and arising from the posterior margin, 

 becoming evanescent at some distance above the middle, but reap- 

 pearing, slightly in the male, prominently in the female, on the 

 costa : hind wing with two indistinct subbasal black lines, a discal 

 spot, and outer greyish-exteriorly-bordered transverse double lunular 

 line ; exterior margin with a row of black lunules. 



Expanse 2i inches. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell ; F. Moore. 



H. RETRACTARIA, n. Sp. (PI. XXXII. fig. 7.) 



Male and female dark greyish testaceous, with numerous closely 

 disposed, short, very narrow black strigae : fore wing grey at the base 

 and along the costal border ; a zigzag blackish band obliquely from 

 base of hind margin retracting to the costa at one-third of its length, 

 bordered exteriorly by a black line ; a parallel black-inner-bordered 

 greyish-black submarginal band, which also retracts to the costa 

 before the apex, emitting a black streak from the retracted angle to 

 exterior margin ; a black discal spot : hind wing with a basal black- 

 ish band, discal spot, and submarginal black-inner-bordered greyish- 

 black band, exterior to which on both wings, in the female, the space 

 is pale or greyish ; a black marginal line. Cilia broad, dark testa- 

 ceous. Body greyish, with blackish waist-band. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W. S. Atkinson. 



H. HUMERARIA, n. Sp. 



Male pale whitish testaceous : hind wing with closely disposed very 

 narrow transverse ferruginous strigse ; a black line bordered within 

 by a parallel ferruginous line from base of hind wing, ascending the 

 fore wing parallel with the costa to beneath a black discal spot, before 

 and above which it twice retracts and then proceeds to the base of 

 the wing along the costa, the space within being whitish grey : fore 

 wing with three slightly apparent ferruginous bands obliquely from 

 below the apex to hind margin ; exterior margin with a suffused 

 dusky -grey patch near the apex and posterior angle : hind wing with 

 a black discal dot ; a slightly apparent narrow inner and broad sub- 

 marginal baud, formed of partly confluent ferruginous lines, the latter 

 bordered inwardly by a fine black sinuous line, and outwardly by a 

 straight white line. Head and collar of thorax testaceous ; thorax 

 greyish white. Abdomen yellowish ferruginous, with blackish waist- 

 band, and narrow segmental borders. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. 



H. ATROSTIPATA. 



Scotosia atrostipata. Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxv. Geom. 

 p. 1354. 



