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fuscous brown ; the underside greyish thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 lunule, faint, curved medial line and more distinct postmedial line shewing 

 through to upperside. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 36 mill. 



2903. Should stand as Marapana rubripunctalis. 



2903. a. Marapana minoralis, n. sp. 



Differs from M. rubripunctalis in being smaller. Forewing with the postmedial 

 line very minutely waved ; hindwing with the postmedial line sinuous, not 

 waved ; both wings with the lunules at base of cilia black, not crimson. 



The medial and postmedial areas of forewing are sometimes suffused with 

 rufous or the medial area has a black patch on inner half. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maturata, Puttalam, "Ova (Mackwood, Green, Pole, 

 Alston). Exp. 18-20 mill. Type in B. M. 



2903.&. Marapana lactigutta, n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen purplish red-brown mixed with some black ; 

 palpi and frons mostly black ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish; 

 anal tuft rufous, Forewing purplish red-brown ; a black patch at base of costa 

 enclosing a spot of the ground colour, a small spot on inner margin ; a black 

 spot with white centre at middle of cell with a black patch above it on costa ; 

 an ill-defined quadrate patch on discocellulars ; postmedial line black, diffused, 

 with some white lunules on its outer edge and prominent patch in submedian 

 interspace, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, pale, with black patch before it at costa and 

 slight black spots on its outer edge, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing with some fuscous 

 suffusion at middle forming a very ill-defined band ; an indistinct curved 

 postmedial series of dark points and a prominent terminal series. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (J. Pole). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



2905. a. Marapana olivescens, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish mixed with olive-green ; abdomen whitish 

 ochreous, sometimes with some blackish dorsal marks. Forewing whitish tinged 

 with ochreous and pink and on costal area with olive-green ; an obliquely 

 curved olive-green antemedial band from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; 

 an obscure dark-edged whitish discoidal lunule with black point at lower angle 

 of cell and traces of a waved line from it to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line pale, oblique, and with olive green above it from costa to vein 4 where it is 

 strongly angled, then obsolescent ; an indistinct pale lunulate subterminal line, 

 strongly angled at vein 5 and with black streak from its angle extending into 

 cilia ; a series of short black strise just before termen ; some black points on cilia 

 below apex ; the termen excurved below apex and sharply angled at vein 4. 

 Hindwing purplish pink with slight dark discoidal spot ; traces of a sinuous 

 postmedial line ; the termen crenulate with a fine dark line. 



Habitat. — Wynad (Cardew) ; Ceylon, Corigama (Mackwood). Exp. 30 mill. 

 Type in B. M. 



