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reddish brown. Forewing deep red-brown, slightly tinged with grey and 

 with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, bent inwards to costa and excurved 

 above inner margin ; orbicular a black point ; reniform chocolate brown, 

 rather constricted at middle, with a white point at upper extremity and 

 two at lower ; a diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell and angled inwards below the cell ; postmedial line black, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then with black points beyond it on 

 the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; submedial line faint, pale, 

 defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of minute dark lunules ; a fine whitish line at base of 

 cilia. Hindwing reddish brown tinged with grey ; a fine whitish line at 

 base of cilia ; the underside whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 dark brown, a black discoidal spot, diffused curved postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of small black lunules from apex to vein 2. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Bhutan. Exp. 36-40 mill. 



1887c. Athetis longiciliata. 



Athetis longiciliata, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. viii., p. 324, pi. 

 129, f. 28 (1909). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with a few dark brown scales ; palpi black 

 at sides except at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; tarsi fuscous with 

 pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous suffused with fuscous except the anal tuft. 

 Forewing rufous tinged with grey and slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian f old ; antemedial line blackish, oblique to vein 1, then erect ; 

 orbicular a blackish point ; reniform a narrow lunule defined by diftused 

 rufous, and with slight whitish points round it ; medial line brown, rather 

 diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique 

 and sinuous ; postmedial line brown, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique, with traces of a series of dark points beyond it on the veins ; sub- 

 terminal line yellowish, defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia with a fine yellowish line at base. Hindwing red-brown tinged with 

 fuscous ; a diffused blackish discoidal spot ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 lunviles ; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with dark-brown, a black discoidal spot, rather diffused curved 

 brown postmedial line, and terminal series of small black lunules from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Antennse with the cilia rather long. 



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

 1887. Athktis fasciata. 



Graphiphora fasciata, Moore, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 54 ; Hmpsn., Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M., viii, p. 325, pi. 129, f . 29. 

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