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a reddish tinge. Forewing dark chocolate-brown largely suffused with 

 grey ; traces of a double curved sinuous antemedial line with an oblique 

 dark brown shade beyond it from costa to median nervure ; orbicular and 

 reniform absent ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from cell to inner mar- 

 gin ; postmedial line indistinct, brown, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, a triangular 

 red-brown patch beyond it on costal area with some grey points on the 

 costa ; an indistinct waved brown subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 slight brown spots. Hindwing red-brown with the terminal area dark 

 brown ; cilia pale rufous with a red-brown line near base ; the underside 

 greyish suffused with rufous except on inner area to the indistinct curved 

 postmedial line, a slight discoidal lunule. 

 Habitat. — Bombay, Kaewak, Exp. 26 mill. 



Genvis PoLYPH^Eifis. 



Ty2:)e. 



Polyijhoenis, Boisd., Ind. Meth., p. 128 (1840). . . . . sericata. 



Triphoeno2)sis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i., p. 163 (1878) . . lucilla. 



Proboscis fully developed ; j)alpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd typi- 

 cally moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, • round ; antenna of male 

 typically bipectinate with short branches ; the apical part serrate ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the 

 metathorax with divided crest ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore- 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle : 9 from 10 anastomo- 

 sing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from ceL. Hindwing with veins 3"4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. iv. {Triphosnopsis) . Antennee of male ciliated. 



A. Palpi with the 3rd joint very long and porrect. 



1749. POLYPH^NIS PUICHERRIMA. 



Epilecta pulclierrima, Moore, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 54, pi. 6, f. 3. 

 Polyphxnis largetani, Obuth. Et. Ent. vi., p. 19, pi. viii, f. 4 (1881). 

 Epilecta opulenta, Butl. P. Z.S., 1883, i?. 160. 



B. Palpi with the 3rd joint short. 



a. Hindwing with the inner edge of the terminal band 



strongly incurved at discal fold . . . . . . confecta. 



I). Hindwing with the inner edge of the terminal 



band not incurved at discal fold 

 a^. Hindwing with the inner area brow^n, 

 «-. Hindwing with dark discoidal striga. the post- 

 medial line absent . . . . . . . . diminuta. 



