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Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the second joint fringed 

 with scales, the third naked and acuminate ; antennas thickened and 



flattened. Forewing with the 

 apex rounded, the outer margin 

 evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with 9, which is 

 Beguma constellata $ \ given off from .10 to form an areole. 



Hindwing with veins 3-4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6-7 from upper angle : 8 free. 



808a. Beguma constellata. Warr. A.M.N.H. ((5), xviii, p. 228. 



£. Head fulvous ; thorax black-brown; abdomen fulvous. Forewing 

 pale, suffused with pale red ? deeper and purplish at base, along veins 

 only on outer area. Hindwirg similar, but with the purplish con- 

 fined to inner basal area. Underside of forewing with a few silvery- 

 blue spots below costa and in cell ; the basal half of inner area thickly 

 spotted. Hindwing with the basal area thickly spotted with silvery- 

 blue running outwards to beyond middle on costa and below cell. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 42 mm. 



LIMACODID^E. 



8225. Macroplectra apicalis, n. sp* 



Glossy black-brown. Forewing with small triangular yellowish- 

 white apical spot ; vertex of head, frons, aud palpi pale yellow. 



Habitat.— Khasis, Exp. $ 16, $ 18 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



This species has the extremely thickened and flattened antennas of 

 semiaurantia in the $, also the large tuft of scales on metathorax ; vein 

 10 is from the cell, but the long palpi and spurs will separate the 

 genus from Oxyplax. 



Section IV. Antennas of male serrate throughout. 

 Siia. Natada acatharta, n. sp. 



$. Gray-brown suffused with fuscous. Forewing with dark points 

 at base and end of cell and traces of a dark line below the cell ; a large 

 dark postmedial patch between vein 7 and inner margin with obscure 

 pale centre with dentate outer edge ; a dark marginal apical line. 

 Hindwing uniform fuscous. 



Hahitat. —Khdsis. Exp. 30 mm. Type.— In British Museum. 



