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centre^ ; an irregularly waved whitish submarginal line ; a marginal 

 series \of black points. Hind wing blackish, with indistinct sinuous 

 mediali line defined by whitish ; a crenulate snbmarginal white line ; 

 a marginal series of black points ; underside with black point in cell 

 and di£<cocellular lunule ; crenulate postmedial and submarginal lines 

 defined^ by whitish. 



ffab h' at. —^>ikh\m (Dudgeon) ; Khasis. Type. — In British Museum. 

 2831a. Mastigophoeus picticilia, n. sp. 



9 . Head and thorax yellow-brown ; abdomen darker ; base of palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen below, fiery-red. Forewing olive yellow-brown, 

 irrorated with dark scales ; costa fiery-red ; waved subbasal and ante- 

 medial red lines ; a pale speck in cell and large obscure pale reniform 

 stigma, often with two black specks on it ; two sinuous postmedial brown- 

 ish lines with a more or less developed pale-edged deep black lunule on 

 them below vein 2 ; an irregularly sinuous submarginal line. Hind- 

 wing fuscous, the anal area yellow-brown, irrorated with fuscous ; both 

 wings with the 'eins of outer area streaked with fiery-red ; a marginal 

 series of black speiks ; cilia fuscous at base, crimson at tips. 



Habitat. — Khasis, Exp. 54 mm. Type.— In British Museum. 

 2833a. Mastigophoeous peedentalis, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax black-brown, palpi fringed with ochreous hair 

 on third joint ; abdomen fuscous-black. Forewing dull purplish, the costal 

 and. outer areas fuscous, a black point near base of cell ; traces of an 

 erect antemedial line bent inwards to costa ; a large deep bladi dis- 

 coidal lunule, squarely truncate at top, defined by a brown line and 

 extending just below angle of cell ; a highly dentate postmedial black 

 line, defined by grey, oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a 

 grey submarginal line, straight from costa to vein 6, strongly angled 

 inwards above vein 5, then excurved, and from vein 2 to inner margin 

 dentate. Hindwing fuscous with indistinct black discoidal lunules ; a 

 medial line oblique to vein 4, then dentate ; indistinct submarginal 

 dentate line ; both wings with marginal series of black lunules and pale 

 line at base of cilia. Underside grey irrorated with black ; forewing 

 with black spot in cell and curved postmedial line ; hindwing with spot 

 in cell, discocellular lunule and dentate postmedial and submarginal 

 lines. 



Habitat. — Khasis, Exp. 36 mm. Type. — In British Mus^i- 

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