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Y-shaped mark and with a white spot beyond it at vein 5 ; some white points 

 on costa towards apex and a terminal series ; cilia chequered rufous and black. 

 Hindwing dark brown, the interspaces of basal half hyaline ; cilia pale with a 

 brown line at base. 



Habitat. — Assam, Jaintia Hills. Exp. 30 mill. 



Sabeotheipin^e. 



2222. a. Blenina aquisoides, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p, 156 (1905). 

 Head brown, the vertex white ; thorax brown mixed with white, the tegulee 



brown at base white at tips ; tarsi with white rings ; abdomen brown, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Forewing white suffused with dark brown except on 

 basal and apical areas ; the medial area suffused with purplish fuscous 

 irrorated with irridiscent scales except on costal area ; subbasal line represented 

 by a dark striga from costa ; traces of oblique antemedial and medial lines from 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line slightly waved, oblique from costa to vein 

 6, excurved to vein 3, then inwardly oblique ; some black points on costa 

 towards apex ; an ill-defined irregularly dentate subterminal line, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; termen brown ; cilia chequered white 

 and brown. Hindwing pale brown, the costal area whitish, the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area. 

 Habitat. — 'Assam, Khasis. Exp. 32 mill. 



2223. a. Blenina fumosa, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 157 (1905). 



$?. Head and thorax dull sap-green suffused with brown, tegulse black at 

 base and with brown medial line ; abdomen dull brown. Forewing pale 

 purplish brown largely suffused with sap-green and irrorated with blue-black 

 scales, the medial area suffused with black ; an indistinct waved subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; an indistinct oblique antemedial line, waved below 

 the cell ; postmedial line indistinct, waved, slightly bent outwards below costa 

 and angled inwards in submedian fold, where there are two slight oblique black 

 streaks beyond it ; subterminal line indistinct, minutely waved, slightly angled 

 outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle, then angled inwards and with short 

 black streak beyond it. Hindwing blackish brown with oblique sinuous pale 

 postmedial band ; termen at middle pale rufous with some black points on it ; 

 cilia pale rufous with fuscous line through them. Underside of both wings pale 

 rufous, the basal half suffused with fuscous, the terminal half with black, a 

 sinuous ochreous brown postmedial band. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 46 mill. 



Genus Apotheipa, nov. 



Type A. iphida. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; 

 antennae of male ciliated. Forewing with veins 3, 4 stalked, 5 from above 

 angle of cell ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; ] 1 from ceil. 

 Hindwing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



