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postmedial line ; a discocellular speck. Hindwing fuscous red-brown 

 irrorated with black ; costal aud inner area whitish ; a large irregular 

 bluish-gray patch beyond lower angle of cell running almost to anal 

 angle ; some long erect hairs below end of cell. Underside wholly 

 suffused with pale ochreous. 



Habitat.— SikHm, 1,800 feet (Dudgeon). Exp. 24 mm. Type.— 

 In British Museum. 



2773a. Baparna ferrilineata, n. sp. 

 $ . Gray-brown irrorated with black scales ; head ferruginous ; anal 

 tuft tinged with ferruginous. Forewing with straight, nearly erect 

 ferruginous ante- and postmedial lines ; costa narrowly fulvous, with 

 two black specks towards apex. Hindwing suffused with fuscous. 

 Underside ochreous tinged with fulvous and irrorated with black ; 

 disk of forewing fuscous ; a fuscous postmedial line. Hindwing with 

 discocellular speck. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 26 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



2774a. Raparna stigmatilis, n. sp. 

 Dark brown ; head, thorax, and forewing with a yellow tinge ; the 

 last with the inner basal area suffused with yellow; ante- and post- 

 medial waved lines with pale edges, the former angled inwards on 

 median nervure and j vein 1, the latter strongly bent outwards beyond 

 cell and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; a black speck in cell and 

 yellow discocellular lunule ; an indistinct sinuous submarginal line 

 with slight yellow marks on it ; some yellow specks on costa towards 

 apex and a marginal series. Hindwing and abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 28 mm. Type. — In British Museum, 



Deltoidin,e. 

 Genus Aphorisma, nov. 

 Type. — A. albistriata (Hampson). 

 Range. — Assam. 



Palpi upturned ; the second joint smoothly scaled and reaching far 



above vertex of head ; the third with 

 triangular tuft on inner side ; antennas 

 of male with bristles and fasciculate 

 cilia. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 

 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from 

 Aphorisma albistriata \. $. Below upper angle ; 7, 8, £). and 10 



