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the area between it and antemedial line black with three tufts of raised 

 scales ; a medial line from costa to median nervure, angled on subcostal 

 netvure, two discoidal tufts of scales; a double sinuous post-medial line 

 angled below costa and at middle ; an indistinct highly dentate subterminal 

 line. Hindwing almost black ; underside with two indistinct medial lines. 

 Habitat — Khasis, Exp. 32 mill. Tyj^e — In B. M. 

 2293a. Gyrtona cristipennis, n, sp. 



$. Head whitish ; thorax grey and brown, ochreous at extremity ; abdo- 

 men greyish tinged with ochreous. Forewing violaceous-grey, the base and 

 costal area tinged with ochreous ; an oblique double dark brown costal 

 striga near base ; a whitish antemedial band with two slightly waved dark 

 brown lines on it, the inner expanding into a difEused patch of scales in cell ; 

 a ttift of raised fulvoua scales beyond the band in cell and another blackish 

 below median nervure ; the end of cell and costal area above it brown 

 variegated with pinkish with some black strife and a blackish discoidal tuft 

 of scales defined by white lines ; a large ochreous lunulate mark from costa 

 beyond cell defined by a fine dentate black line on its outer edge ; a sub- 

 terminal line of white striae and a terminal line of white and black stria?. 

 Hindwing semi-hyaline, the terminal half suffused with fuscous. 

 Habitat.—lihsLsia. Exp. 36 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 2332. Carea xanthia, n. sp. 



Forewing with the apex produced ; the termen slightly angled at vein 

 4. Bright chrome yellow ; palpi and antennse red, the former white in 

 front ; pectus white ; tibise and tarsi with red-brown and orange scales. 

 Forewing slightly irrorated with black ; a slight red and black streak on inner 

 margin before middle ; pale brownish spots in middle of cell, above middle 

 of inner margin, on discocellulars and in submedian fold beyond middle • 

 an oblique red-brown patch from apex with some white scales on it ; cilia 

 red-brown with some patches of white scales. Hindwing rather pale yellow 

 with rufous suffusion from lower angle of cell to apex and middle of 

 termen. 

 Habitat.— ^\kh.\m, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 28 mill. Type— In B, M. 

 2358a. Catocala trisa, Swinh., A, M. N. H. (7), 3., p. 115. (1899). 

 Head and thorax dark-fuscous-brown ; abdomen yellow ; pectus and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Forewing dark brown ; a short subbasal 

 line ; a double waved antemedial line, the outer stronger, especially towards 

 costa ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, very strongly angled below 

 costa, less strongly angled on vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2 and 

 outwardly oblique to inner margin ; an obscure highly dentate curved 

 subterminal line ; the apex greyish, Hindwing pale yellow with fuscous 

 band from costa just before apex expanding to termen between veics 6 and 2 

 where it terminates. 

 Habitat.— Bomh^y, Satara. Exp, 42 mill. 

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