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Head and thorax pale olive-?reen ; palpi at sides, antennae and fore'egs 

 blackish ; abdomen olive-brown tinged with fuscous. Forewing pale olive- 

 green ; traces of a curved waved subbasal white line defined hy a few blackish 

 scales; a double, waved, oblique antemedial black line becoming whitish and 

 obsolescent on inner half ; a tuft of raised ferruginous scales in middle of 

 cell, and a tuft of black scales on discocellulars ; orbicular and reniform 

 represented by diffused confluent white patches ; medial line black, excurved 

 and obsolescent at middle ; postmedial line double, blackish filled in with 

 white, obsolescent except at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some black and white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, irregular, whitish defined by a dark shade on inner 

 side, angled outwards below costa, excurved at middle and to tornus, a terminal 

 series of small black spots ; cilia grey and fuscous. Hiudwing fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia whitish with a dark line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous, a black discoidal spot with striga from costa above it, a curved 

 diffused postmedial line. 



Habitat.— Khasis. Exp. $ 24, $ 28 mill. Type in B. M. 

 1988. a. Erastkia ccenia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7), VII, p. 471 (1901). 

 Haid, thorax and abiomen whitish tinged with rufous; palpi blackish at sides, 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally banded with black. Forewing whitish 

 largely suffused with rufous ; the antemedial line white defined by brown, ob- 

 lique from costa to submedian fold where it is acutely-angled, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; the whitish area terminates on costal half obliquely at 

 middle of wing and is followed by a blackish patch extending on costa 

 to apex and down to vein 2, leaving the terminal area pale ; reniform leaden- 

 grey with blackish centre and outline produced to short streaks on the veins 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; an indistinct oblique, minutely waved dark line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin, the postmedial line white, oblique 

 from costa to vein 7, then excurved and angled inwards in submedian fold ; 

 a white subterminal line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle with short black streaks on its inner side on veins 4 and 3 or on 

 3 only ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing yellowish more or less 

 completely suffused with brown ; an indistinct dark discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line, distinct and the latter waved on underside. 

 Habitat. — Sikhim ; Khisis ; Jaintia Hills. Exp. 26 mill. 

 2001. a. Maliattha maeginalis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., VII., p. 49 



(1864) ; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon., 

 II., p. 51, pi. 1, f. 9. 

 stolasa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) XV., p. 154. (1905). 

 Head, thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with rufous ; tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings. Forewing whitish suffused with rufous, the basal area except towards 

 costa paler ; an indistinctly double, obliquely curved and slightly waved ante- 

 medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly double, sinuous, oblique from costa to 

 vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and defined by white on outer side 



