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Genus Prometopidia, nov. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porreet, slender, hardly reaching as far as 

 the large conical frontal prominence ; antennse of male laminate ; legs slender ; 



wings slender. Forewing with the termen 

 oblique ; vein 3 from close to angle of 

 ^■•s??N (^^^^^~ ~~7 j^ ^^^ ' ^ from middle of discocellulars ; 



,^____^^ f 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked from before upper 



angle ; 11 approximated to 12, then 10. 

 Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle 

 Prometopidia conisaria $ \, of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 



discocellulars ; 7 from before upper angle ; 8 approximated to cell to middle. 

 3463a. Pkometopidia conisakia, n. sp. I 



Brownish-grey irrorated with brown ; frontal prominence black ; wings 

 irrorated with some large black scales, Forewing with waved blackish ante- 

 medial line ; a small discoidal tuft of black scales ; an oblique postmedial line 

 slightly dentate at the veins and incurved between veins 3 and 1 ; a termin- 

 al series of black points ; the cilia intersected with white. Hindwing with 

 black discoidal point ; a slightly dentate postmedial line and traces of a sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish at base. 

 Habitat.— Kdishmiv, Narkundah (McArthur). Exp. 80 mill. Type— In B.M. 

 3469a. Medasina nepalensis, n. sp. 



Antenna of male with very long branches ; hind tibife dilated with fold 

 and tuft. 



^. Whitish strongly irrorated with red and dark-brown ; palpi, frons 

 and branches of antenna dark-brown. Forewing with traces' of diffused 

 antemedial line ; a diffused discoidal spot ; an indistinct dentate postmedial 

 line ; a highly crenulate whitish subterminal line defined on each side by 

 brown ; a terminal series of points. Hindwing with the basal area more 

 thickly irrorated with blackish ; a dark discoidal spot ; a dentate medial line 

 with obscure spot beyond it in discal fold ; a crenulate whitish subterminal 

 line defined a each side by brown; a terminal series of points. Underside 

 white ; both wings with discoidal spot ; forewing with the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous except towards tornus, widely at costa and leaving a 

 whitish mark at apex ; hindwing with indistinct subterminal line. 

 Habitat.— ^epa,l (Wright). Exp. 66 mill. Type—In B. M. 

 3497a. Arichanna plagiogramma, n. sp, (pi. C, f. s.). 

 White very slightly tinged with yellow ; palpi, antennae, a band across 

 frons, tegulas and tips of patagia black ; legs striated and abdomen banded 

 with black. Forewing with subbasal, two antemedial and a medial black line ; 

 a fascia from base just above median nervure to the double postmedial line, 

 of which the inner is excurved below costa and in submedian fold bent 

 inwards to join the medial line, the outer of the two lines crenulate and joined 

 by short streaks to the waved subterminal line, which is connected with the 

 terminal line by two patches above middle and one below it ; cilia chequered 



