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curved almost straight, discal band from costa to vein 1 margined witli 

 white ; an indistinct greyish submarginal band ; a tuft of upturned grey 

 hairs attached to the dorsum. Hindwing : discocelhilars grey bordered 

 with white ; a discal band bordered with white as on forewing but consisting 

 of short lumules and recurved along the inner margin ; a subterminal 

 narrow grey band bordered with white ; anal lobe fuscous ; a small fuscous 

 spot above base of tail which is black tipped with white. Antennte above 

 fuscous indistinctly ringed with white ; club tipped with yellowish ; below 

 similar but markings more distinct. 

 Expanse : c? l' 59". 



SiNTHUSA NASAKA, Horsfield. 



Six males and seven females taken in the Western Manipur Hills and at 

 Sebong in January, April, July, October and December. 



SiNTHUSA CHANDRANA, Moore. 



Three males taken at Saitu, Manipur Valley, in May and November. A 

 male and female taken on the Irang River in January and April and two 

 males at Sebong in January and April. 



SiNTHtJSA VIRGO, Elwes. 



Two specimens taken at Kirbari, Naga Hills, in June agree with De 

 Niceville's description and figure of S. virgo ; they however have no secon- 

 dary sexual marks and therefore if males cannot be assigned to the genus 

 Sinthusa which has. If they are females they cannot, unless they are 

 dimorphs, be S. virgo as they do not agree with Elwes' description. 



In the De Niceville collection there is one specimen labelled S. virgo which 

 agrees with Elwes' description. There are also above it several specimens 

 which agree with my two specimens and with De Niceville's description and 

 figure of S. virgo S • I have no note as to whether these specimens were 

 marked d" d or not, nor if any of them had secondary sexual characters 

 but I think they had not, for I made the following note at the time : " Simi- 

 lar to what I have called S. virgo 5 ". Referring to my two above men- 

 tioned specimens, if the $ referred to in De Niceville's collection is really 

 S. virgo then I am of the opinion that the wrong male has been assigned to 

 it and that the next species described under the new genus PseudocMiaria as 

 new will probably prove to be the 'true male of Elwes' virgo. But if De 

 Niceville's specimens are all females then they may possibly be a dimorphic 

 2 form of S. virgo. It is however highly improbable that Mr. De Niceville 

 when describing his male should have done so from a female form lacking the 

 secondary sexual characters of a Sinthusa, and possibly there was a male in 

 his collection with secondary sexual characters which I overlooked ; if this is 

 so then his S virgo with a similar female form will require a new name, and 

 my virgoides will have to sink as a synonym of S. virgo, Elwes. 



Genus Pseudochliaria, Nov. 



Venation and secondary sexual patch of modified scales on upper hind- 

 wing similar to Sinthusa but difi'ers from that genus in lacking on the under- 

 side of the forewing the tuft of upturned hairs on the dorsum and in the 

 possession of a large patch of modified scales filling the basal third of the 

 dorsal space below vein 1. Type P. virgoides, Mihi. 



PSEUDOCHLIARIA VIRGOIDES, n. Sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 26, S)- 



Male. Upper side .-very like a dark speicimen of 2 Chliaria Mna . Forewing : 

 costa and termen broadly black ; dorsum narrowly black ; basal area dark 



