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a 2 . Hindwing suffused with bright rufous except terminal 



area pictalis. 



b 2 . Hindwing not suffused with rufous griseata. 



B. Frons concolorous. 



a 1 . Hindwing without discoidal tuft of fulvous scales goniophora. 



b l . Hindwing with discoidal tuft of fulvous scales xanthopis. 



2887. b. Ar^eopterum nivalis., n. sp. 



$. White ; palpi and frons tinged with fuscous. Forewing with subbasal 

 and antemedial black points on costa, the latter with a faint obliquely curved 

 brown line arising from it ; a black discoidal point with another above it on 

 costa with the faint brown postmedial line arising from it, bent outwards 

 below costa, then waved ; a series of black points on costa with a brown spot 

 before them above the discal fold ; cilia brownish. Hindwing slightly irrorated 

 with brownish ; a brown medial band with black spot at costa and point at 

 inner margin ; faint traces of a curved postmedial line ; cilia brownish. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Peradeniya (Green). Exp. 10 mill. Type in B. M. 



2887. c. Ar^eopteron proleuca, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi and frons brown, the former banded with 

 black ; abdomen red-brown. Forewing pure white more or less suffused with 

 red-brown and fuscous except on costa and postmedial areas ; the costa with 

 series of red-brown marks with white points on them ; subbasal line represent- 

 ed by a black point on costa ; the antemedial line oblique, waved, more or less 

 interrupted ; a black discoidal lunule with striga on costa above it ; a waved 

 postmedial line incurved below cell ; subterminal line only defined by the 

 area beyond it being fuscous except at apex, angled outward at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing white at base, then fuscous, with a 

 black discoidal spot, to the postmedial black line which is incurved to costa, 

 then white ; the terminal area pale rufous irrorated with fuscous and with in- 

 distinct sinuous white subterminal line. 



Habitat. — Bengal, Calcutta (Atkinson) ; Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 12 mill. 



2887 d. Ar^eopteron griseata, n. sp. 



Head and tegulse white ; palpi and frons black ; thorax grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewing grey irrorated and suffused with brown ; subbasal line re- 

 presented by a black point on costa, the antemedial line by a black point on 

 costa and an oblique sinuous more or less complete brown line ; a rather V-shaped 

 black mark on discocellulars with a black and orange mark above it on costa 

 and an oblique line from it to inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, grey 

 with a blackish patch with white points on it before it on costa, incurved at 

 discal fold where there is a blackish mark before it, again incurved at subme- 

 dian fold, the area beyond it rather darker, a terminal series of black points. 

 Hindwing grey, suffused and irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal point with 

 some blackish suffusion near it ; an ill-defined sinuous black postmedial line ; a 

 very indistinct sinuous grey subterminal line with area beyond it rather darker ; 

 termen fulvous yellow with a series of black points ; cilia brown and grey. 



