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the latter banded with black above, the fore tibiae rufous ; abdomen fuscous 

 irrorated with grey above, grey below, a pale rufous, dorsal tuft on 1st segment. 

 Forewing red-brown largely suffused with purple-red ; the costa with series of 

 dark marks ; antemedial dark spots above and below vein 1 ; orbicular indistinct 

 with some leaden-grey in its lower part ; reniform leaden-grey with pale annulus 

 and placed on a large patch of dark suffusion ; the postmedial line sinuous, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, a quadrate blackish 

 patch beyond it on costa and slight streak on each side of vein 5 ; some black 

 points on termen and a larger spot at vein 5. Hind wing dark-brown ; the cilia 

 ochreous with a dark line near base. 



Habitat.--®. India, Gooty (Campbell). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B. M. 



2037. b. Tarache plumbicula. n. sp. 



ft. Head and thorax brown mixed with dark leaden-grey ; palpi in front 

 and frons paler ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated and suffused with brown. Fore- 

 wing dark leaden-grey suffused with black ; a whitish patch at base of inner 

 margin ; traces of a double waved black antemedial line ; an obscure paler 

 oblique medial mark from costa to median nervure ; a reddish streak in and 

 beyond end of cell ; a spot of the ground colour on a whitish patch on apical 

 part of costa ; a subterminal series of small dentate b'ack spots ; a terminal 

 series of black stria?. Hindwing ochreous white suffused with fuscous towards 

 termen, widely on apical area ; a dark terminal line. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Matale" (Pole). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



2045. a. Xanthoptera rtjbrifusa. n. sp. 



ft. Head and thorax reddish mixed with dark brown ; pectus and legs 

 greyish and black, the tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous with ill- 

 defined fuscous bands. Forewing greyish mostly suffused with crimson, the 

 terminal half much darker, becoming paler again towards termen ; an indistinct 

 waved antemedial line ; traces of a dark discoidal lunule ; an indistinct waved 

 subterminal line excurved below costa and at middle ; cilia crimson red. 

 Hindwing fuscous ; the underside greyer with small discoidal spot and indis- 

 tinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Habitat.— Cexlon, N. Central Province (Alston). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



2052. a. Xanthoptera Nicea, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7), YII, p. 470 (1P01). 



ft. Ochreous tinged with red-brown ; tegulaa with fuscous lines ; some 

 fuscous on vertex of thorax. Forewing with the inner area suff'uFed with 

 black ; numerous brown striae on costal area ; an antemedial ochreous and 

 dark-brown patch above vein 1 and ochreous spot on inner margin ; the 

 orbicular and reniform with greyish centres and black outlines, the former small 

 round, the latter large with its upper and lower extremities produced ; a 

 black-defined comma-shaped mark below end of cell ; the postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal 

 fold and strongly in submedian fold ; the subterminal line pale, double, minute- 

 ly waved, angled at vein 4, then oblique and filled in with dark brown running 

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