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dentate subterminal line angled inwards above vein 7, bent inwards between 

 veins 6 and 4 and below vein 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 

 yellowish white, the inner half suffused with pale red. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 40 mill. 



2334. a. Carea dione, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 159 (1905). 



Head and thorax purple brown, the vertex of head, tegulse and patagia 

 suffused with dark olive green ; pectus and legs pale ; abdomen pale purplish 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Forewing pale purplish brown suffused 

 with olive green, especially at base, on medial area from costa to vein 2 and 

 on apical area ; oblique olive lines from costa before middle to middle of 

 inner margin and from vein 6 beyond middle to inner margin towards tornus ; 

 cilia rufous except towards tornus. Hindwing whitish tinged with pale red 

 the inner area slightly with fuscous. 



Habitat.— Assam, Khasis. Exp. $ 38, $ 40 mill. 

 Genus Plagiograpta, nov. 



Palpi upturned, slended, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd long ; 

 antennae of male almost simple ; tibiae with the spurs long ; abdomen long and 

 slender. Forewing long and narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked from before angle ; 11 from cell ; the reti- 

 naculum bar-shaped. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 on a long stalk ; 5 from angle 

 of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell to middle. 

 2342. a. Plagiograpta macrodonta, n. sp. 



Head, tegute and front of thorax white, the rest of thorax and abdomen 



grey-brown. Fore- 

 wing grey-brown ; 

 a broad white fascia 

 from base through 

 the cell, its edges 

 rather irregular, a 

 very oblique ante- 

 Plagiograpta macrodonta. $ § medial white line 



from it to inner margin ; a white streak on median nervure continued to 

 termen above tornus and giving off an oblique medial line to inner margin and 

 a streak on vein 3 to termen joined by oblique streaks from upper angle of eel] 

 and costa beyond middle crossing a streak from upper angle of cell to apex ; a 

 fine subterminal white line straight from costa to vein 3, then bent inwards to 

 the streak running to above tornus. Hindwing fuscous brown. 



Habitat.— Caxaka, Malmani (T. K. Bell). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



Catocalin^e. 



2516 a. Ophiusa pallescens, Wlk., Journ. Linn Soc, VII., p. 179 (1864). 

 Lagoptera violetta. Pag. Abh. Senck. Ges. 1897, p. 449, pi. 20, f. 13. 

 Head grey-brown ; thorax pale grey ; abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral 

 surface tinged with red-brown. Forewing pale violaceous grey irrorated with 



