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from apex to inner margin before middle, with darker spot on it below 

 the cell, and crossed by a diffused fascia along median recurve, olive- 

 yellowish at base, brown towards end of cell ; a sub-basal dark point 

 below costa ; ante-and postmedial series of dark points ; a submarginal 

 series of oblique striae. Hindwing fuscous with the cilia ochreous. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 38 mm. Type.— In British Museum. 

 2S2a. Chadiska atrifusa, n, sp. 



g. Antennae bipsctinate, the apex simple ; palpi short and porrect. 

 Head and thorax gray and brown ; branches of antennae rufous ; 

 abdomen reddish-brown and fuscous. Fore wing gray, irrorated with 

 brown and almost wholly suffused with black, leaving patches of gray 

 at base, middle of costa and inner margin and middle of outer area ; a 

 double irregularly-waved antemedial line, a discocellular lunule, a double 

 curved crenulate postmedial line. Hindwing yellowish-white suffused 

 with rufous ; traces of a medial line, especially on inner area ; some 

 rufous marks on cilia towards anal angle and a blotch at anal angle. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 50 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 

 285a. Pheosia centristtcta, n. sp. 



$, Head and thorax gray ; abdomen fuscous with some white 

 in anal tuft. Forewing fuscous-grey ; a whitish patch at base of costa 

 bounded by a curved black line ; an antemedial black line incurved 

 from costa to below cell where it is angled outwards, then again incurved 

 to inner margin ; a large white patch in and beyond end of cell with 

 a very prominent black spot on it, traces of a yellowish reniform 

 stigma and black striae on median nervures ; a postmedial black line 

 nearly straight from costa to vein 3, near outer margin then very ob- 

 que, the veins beyond it streaked with black ; apical area rufous. Hind- 

 wing pure white, with black marginal patch near anal angle. 



Habitat. — Sikhim, 1,800 feet (Dudgeon). Exp. 54 mm. Type. — 

 In British Museum. 



288a. Pheosia pictibasis, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax dark brown mingled with gray hairs ; patagia 

 mostly fiery-red ; abdomen blackish. Forewing with short white 

 streak at base of median nervure, with fiery-red beyond it ; the costal 

 half of wing pale fawn, with brown speck and streak on costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique streak from outer margin below apex with some 

 brown suffusion below it ; a diffused chocolate fascia along median 



