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2727a. Zethes pallidicosta, n. sp. 

 #. Head fuscous-brown ; the vertex whitish ; thorax and base of 

 abdomen yellowish- white ; the collar and a patch on metatherax dark 

 brown ; medial part of abdomen fuscous ; extremity brown. Fore- 

 wing with broad whitish costal fascia becoming fuscous at costa, 

 expanding to base of inner margin and defined by an oblique black 

 sub-basal line ; an oblique postmedial band, fulvous inwardly, whitish 

 outwardly, the two colours divided by a black line ; a white disco- 

 cellular speck} a submarginal series of white specks with small 

 wedge-shaped black marks inside them, and crossed at middle by a 

 black streak. Hindwing fuscous, with medial straight line defined 

 by whitish on outer side ; an indistinct pale minutely-waved sub- 

 marginal line ; underside pale with black discocellular spot and 

 medial line. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 30 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



2731a. Zethes albistigma, n. sp. 

 Head and thorax gray, pencilled with brown ; abdomen reddish- 

 brown with black segmental lines ; wings ochreous-white variegated 

 with gray, red-brown, and blackish scales. Forewing with the gray 

 almost confined to the costal and inner areas ; an antemedial dark 

 brown line, oblique from costa to median nervure ; a black spot in 

 cell ; a sinuous medial line, with the dark-centred white reniform on 

 its outer edge ; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 5, 

 then incurved and sinuous ; a crenulate submarginal line with white 

 lunules on it below apex ; outer area suffused with dark and red- 

 brown. Hindwing with oblique antemedial line -, a discocellular 

 line with two white spots on each side of it ; the postmedial line 

 slightly angled beyond cell and with rufous suffusion beyond it ; a 

 crenulate submarginal line with series of white lunules on it ; veins 

 of outer area dark ; both wings with dark marginal line. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 30 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



2 732<z. Zethes discosticta, n. sp. 

 $. Brown irrorated with black ; vertex of head and thorax tinged 

 with gray. Forewing with the costal area tinged with gray, widening 

 towards base of inner margin ; an obscure curved dentate antemedial 

 line ; black points at middle of cell and on discocellularsj a fine rufous 

 postmedial line acutely angled below costa and below vein 4, then 



