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produced, veins 3,4,5 approximated for some distance; hindwing with the 

 basal half of costa lobed. 



2592. a. Thermesia butleri, Leech. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1900, p. 570. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen rufous ; palpi except at base and frons black- 

 brown ; legs fuscous irrorated with grey ; pectus and ventral surface of 

 abdomen orange fulvous. Forewing rufous irrorated with black and tinged 

 with purplish grey towards apex ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; 

 a black point in middle of cell and white point ringed with black above lower 

 angle ; medial line indistinct, waved, strongly excurved round end of cell * r 

 postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then oblique ; a 

 prominent oblique rufous line from apex, defined by purplish grey on inner 

 side and approximated to the postmedial line below vein 6, a series of slight 

 fuscous spots beyond ic and some fuscous suffusion at middle. Hindwing 

 rufous slightly irrorated with black ; an oblique rufous postmedial lire defined 

 by purplish grey on inner side ; traces of a subterminal series of diffused 

 fuscous spots. Underside orange yellow irrorated with brown ; forewing with 

 fuscous point in cell ; both wings with fuscous discoidal point slightly waved 

 oblique postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



$. Greyer ; forewing with discoidal lunuie defined by fuscous. 



The Khasi form has the area beyond the subterminal spots of hindwing 

 yellow. 



Habitat. — W. China, Chow-pin-sa, Kwei-chow, Omei-shan ; Assam, Khasis^ 

 Exp. # 64, $ 56 mili. 



2601. Thermhsia eivulosa insert (syn.) Acuntholipes quadripuncta,&y?mh., 

 A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 423 (J 902). 



2606. a. Platyja MiNtTTiPUNCTA, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), vii., p. 497(1901). 



Dark brown shot with purple especially on forewing ; tarsi ringed with 

 white. Forewing sparsely irrorated with grey-white scales ; traces of a subbasal 

 white line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line represented by 

 white points on costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; white points in middle 

 and end of cell and a small spot at upper angle and medial white points on 

 veins 2 and 1 ; a postmedial series of points excurved below costa, then oblique 

 and with a grey reniform spot on its inner side from vein 3 to below 2 ; a 

 terminial series of points. Hindwing with curved postmedial series of white 

 points obsolescent towards costa and a terminal series ; cilia white at tips.. 

 Underside of both wings in male velvety black with indistinct postmedial 

 series of points, of female brown irrorated with white with the series of 

 points distinct. 



Habitat. — Assam, Jaintia Hills ; Singapore. Exp, 60 mill. 



2611. Crithote horridipes, Wlk. 



$ . Head and thorax reddish brown with darker irroration, the back of head 

 and tips of tegulse black ; abdomen brown tinged with fuscous. Forewing 

 with the basal half reddish brown tinged with fuscous on costal area ; ante- 

 medial line oblique, curved inwards to costa with a black patch on its outer 



