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mark from costa, strongly angled at vein 7, then oblique, dark edged with grey 

 scales and bisinuate ; two white points on costa towards apex ; an irregularly 

 sinuous subterminal line with some grey scales on it and strongly excurved at 

 middle ; a series of black points just before termen. Hindwing with two black 

 discoidal points ; an oblique grey medial line with dark inner edge and fine 

 black line through it ; a series of black points just before termen ; both wings 

 with fine grey line through the cilia. Underside largely suffused with grey. 

 Habitat.— Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 

 2785. Avitta stjbsignans insert (syn.) Avitta surrigens, Wlk. J. Linn. 

 Soc. ; Zool. VII., p. 81 (1864). 



Hypentn^e. 

 Grenus Codonodes, nov. 

 Palpi upward, sickle-shaped, about four times length of head, the 2nd joint 

 smoothly scaled, the 3rd naked ; antennae of male with cilia and bristles ; tibiae 

 with the spurs long, abdomen with dorsal crests. Forewing with veins 3 and 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7-8*9 stalked, 10' 11 free. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3'4 shortly stalked, 5 from above angle of cell ; 6"7 from upper 

 angle. 

 2792.a. Codonodes eectigramma, n. sp. 



Head and thorax reddish-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; 



abdomen dull brown. 

 Forewing whitish 

 suffused with red- 

 dish brown, deepen- 

 ing at costa ; a 

 slight grey subbasal 

 line from costa to 

 Codonodes rectigramma $ §. submedian fold an- 



gled outwards below costa ; a straight oblique brown antemedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side and with a brown point on its outer edge in submedian 

 fold ; a brown and grey discoidal bar ; postmedial line defined by whitish on 

 outer side, excurved below costa, then oblique, slightly excurved and with 

 brown point on its inner edge in submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish, 

 angled outwards to termen at vein 4, then incurved and ;with irregular black 

 marks on its inner side from vein 6 to inner margin ; a terminal series of black 

 points and a blackish patch at tornus. 



Habitat.— Sikhim (Dudgeon), Canara, Karwar (T. R. Bell). Exp. $ 22, 

 9 24 mill. Type in B. M. 

 2803. a. Adkapsa atratalis, Swinh.,-A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 501 (1095). 

 „ euriosalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 162, 9 (nee. £). 



Fuscous black, slightly irrorated with white ; tegulse reddish brown at tips 

 in male ; tarsi with pale rings. Forewing with slight waved white antemedial 

 line ; a white discoidal lunule ; a minutely waved white postmedial line, bent 

 inwards to costa and angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal line 

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