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some red on it ; a marginal series of black specks. Hindwing similar, the 

 yellowish -white line bounding the red area angled outwards at middle. 

 Habitat. — Khisis. Exp. 24 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



29866. Hypena perdricipennis, n. sp. 

 $. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Forewing purplish- 

 grey, suffused and very thickly striated with dark brown ; traces of an 

 olive-yellow diffused antemedial line and a similar more distinct 

 obliquely curved postmedial line, sometimes with indistinct series of spots 

 beyond it in the interspaces; a diffused grey shade from apex of 

 forewing to inner margin beyond middle. Hindwing dark fuscous ; 

 both wings with grey line at base of cilia. 9 . With the palpi as in 

 Section I. 



Habited. — Khasis. Exp. 32 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



Genus Mixomelia, nov. 

 Type. — M. decipiens, Hampson. 

 Range.— Assam. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the second joint curved forward, fringed 



with hair above, and about four 

 times the length of head, the 

 third minute ; frons rounded ; 

 antennae of male with bristles 

 and cilia ; fore tibise with a 

 Mixomelia decipiens $\. ^amila. containing masses of 



flocculent hair covering almost the whole tarsus, abdomen with lateral 

 tufts of hair. Forewing with vein 7 from cell, 8-9-10 stalked. 

 Hindwing with veins 3-4 and 6-7 shortly stalked, 5 from near middle 

 of discocellulars. 



2991a. Mixomelia decipiens, n. sp. 

 $. Grey-brown ; abdomen dark brown tinged with grey. Forewing 

 with waved antemedial line bent outwards from below costa to below 

 cell ; a diffused medial brown band from cell to inner margin ; two 

 discocellular black specks ; a crenulate postmedial line excurved beyond 

 cell; a crenulate submarginal line angled outwards at middle ; the outer 

 area suffused with brown except towards costa ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Hindwing pale, suffused with fuscous beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; a sinuous medial line and submarginal line angled 

 outwards to the margin at vein 2 ; a marginal line ; underside grey 



