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through them. Hindvving whitish suffused with red-brown ; the ciha white 

 with a brown Hne near base and brown spots at tips ; the underside whitish 

 thickly irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved diffus- 

 ed brown postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Assam, Khasis. Exp. 26-30 mill. 



Genus Proxenxjs. 



Type. 



Proxenus, Her. Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii., p. 240 (1845) . . hospes. 



Badinoffoes, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1886, p. 393 . . . . tenuis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching abovit 

 to middle of frons, and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales and without crests, build slender ; tibise moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Forewing long and narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 

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

 ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3-4 from 

 angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellu- 

 lars ; 6' 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Proxenus). — Mid and hind tibiee of male with fringes of pale 

 hair on outer side, abdomen with lateral fringes of pale hair on basal 

 segments. 



1889«. Proxenus dissimilis. 



Proxenus dissimilis, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., viii., p. 431 

 pi. 133, f . 15 (1909) 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at sides, whitish 

 in front and at tips ; mid and hind tibiee of male fringed with whitish hair ; 

 abdomen grey suffused with brown, the basal segments in male with lateral 

 fringes of white hair, the genital tufts whitish. Forewing glossy brown 

 irrorated with grey and dark brown ; traces of a double waved antemedial 

 line ; orbicular a dark point ; reniform a small lunule slightly defined by 

 brown ; postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, the veins beyond it with 

 dark streak to the subterminal line, which is greyish defined on inner side 

 by fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points with whitish points between them, Hindwing white, 

 the apical area and termen to vein 2 tinged with brown ; cilia brown to- 

 wards apex with a fine white line at base ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown except at base, a slight discoidal point. 



Habitat.— 3 KVAiis ; Sikhim, 1,800'; S. Boeneo ; Philippines. Exp. 24-30 

 mill. 



