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half of termen crimson. Hindwings and cilia light ochreous-rosy, costal cilia 

 pale yellowish. 



Sikkira and Bhutan (1,800 feet), in May ; two specimens (Dudgeon). 



Cerace sardias, n. sp. 



9. 33-40 mm. Head and palpi blackish. Antennae black, spotted with 

 white. Thorax purple-blackish with scattered yellow scales. Abdomen purple- 

 blackish with lateral series of thick yellow bars. Foiewirgs elongate, cosla 

 strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, very oblique ; 6 to costa; 

 bright yellow ; extreme base purple-blackish ; a narrow irregular-edged deep 

 purplish fascia, mixed with black and strewn with small bluish-leaden-meta!- 

 lic spots, from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, including a 

 yellow dot on costa and dorsum ; apical area beyond this fascia wholly deep 

 red, strewn with bluish-leaden-metallic dots : cilia purple-blackish. Hindwings 

 bright yellow ; apical third purple-blackish, anterior edge straight ; cilia pur- 

 ple-blackish, round tornus and dorsum yellow. 



Khasi Hills ; three specimens (Swinhoe). 



Simcethis sandaracina, n. sp. 



g, 16-18 mm. Head dark grey, irrorated with white. Palpi white, sprin- 

 kled with dark grey. Antennse white, ringed with black. T horax dark grey, 

 suffused with red- brown and sprinkled with white. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, sprinkled with whitish, apex ferruginous. Forewings elongate-trian- 

 gular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen bowed, rather oblique ; 

 red-brown, posterior § of cosla broadly suffused with ferruginous-ochreous ; 

 exterior half of dorsum broadly suffused with dark grey ; a short fine white 

 line from costa near base ; an irregular fine white line from \ of costa to before 

 middle of dorsum, irrorated with dark grey except on costa ; a very indistinct 

 fine irregular line of grey irroration from a white spot on costa beyond middle 

 to | of dorsum, followed on costa by a patch of dark grey irroration ; a sub- 

 terminal line of grey irroration from beneath apex to tornus : cilia dark red- 

 brown, tips white on subapical and submedian patches. Hindwings orange- 

 ochreous, partially suffused with ferruginous ; costa rather broadly dark fus- 

 cous, dorsum rather broadly suffused with grey ; cilia grey, suffused with 

 white round apex and with red-brown on termen. 



Simla, in August and September ; two specimens (Nurse). 



Brenthia catenata, n. sp. 



9. 8-9 mm. Head, antennas, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish, second and terminal joints with basal and subapical dark fuscous rings. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 little rounded, slightly oblique; dark fuscous; four (subbasal, first, median, 

 and second) irregular curved transverse shades of fine whitish irroration, median 

 forming part of a transverse-oval discal spot outlined with whitish irroration ; 

 a small blue-green-metallic spot on costa at ^ ; a slender partially interrupted 

 whitish subterminal line, curved parallel to apical part of costa and termen ; a 

 series of black spots round apex and termen, centred with violet-silvery-metallic 



