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postmeclial line fine, a curved dentate subterminal line with slight brownish 

 band beyond it becoming terminal below vein 4. 

 Habitat.'— GrANJAM. Exp. 54 mill. 



MACROGLOSSIN/E. 



1186. Ampelophaga obliqoifascia, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 13). 

 $ . Head and thorax grey slightly mixed with red-brown, the vertex of 

 head and dorsum of thorax red-brown; palpi with white line on 1st joint at 

 side, the 2nd joint red-brown at side ; pectus ventrally orange-red ; tibiae and 

 tarsi grey-white ; abdomen grey with broad diffused dorsal deep red-brown 

 bands, the ventral surface fiery red with segmental brown lines. Forewing 

 purplish grey tinged in parts with red-brown ; subbasal diffused red-brown 

 marks in cell and on vein 1 ; three rather indistinct and diffused curved waved 

 antemedial brown lines ; a slight discoidal point ; a rather broad black-brown 

 band from middle of costa to termen at vein 4, expanding somewhat at costa 

 and into a large triangular patch on termen extending almost to tornus ; post- 

 medial line slight and dentate from costa to the oblique band, then oblique more 

 strongly dentate with some fulvous yellow on its outer side, with a waved 

 line before it from vein 2 to inner margin and two waved lines beyond it from 

 the band to inner margin ; subterminal line double, brownish and slightly 

 waved from costa to vein 5, indistinct except toward costa where it is filled in 

 with yellowish ; a wedge-shaped brown mark on termen below apex ; cilia 

 black-brown. Hindwing dark-brown tinged with red, the inner area greyish ; 

 cilia rufous, whitish at tips. Underside of forewing fiery red with the 

 termen grey, some dark brown suffusion in and below cell, six indistinct waved 

 lines on postmedial area, a pale yellow subapical lunule and two wedge-shaped 

 postmedial marks below veins 3 and 2 ; hindwing fiery red, the inner area 

 greyish, the terminal area brownish, three indistinct minutely waved red post- 

 medial lines. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis (Badgley). Exp. 80 mill. Type in B.M. 



Larva. — Tapering to head, the thoracic somites very protrusible ; head small ; 

 green with pale dots ; subdorsal line white shading off to oblique yellow lateral 

 stripes tinged with pink above ; spiracles small, pale brown ; horn brown ; 

 purple ; feet maroon with a yellow mark above each. Pupates in leaves spun 

 together. 



Pupa. — Long with two horns on head and three at tail, the posterior third 

 of tail much smaller than the anterior part which forms a prominent ring ; 

 dark brown with paler marks (Badgley). 



G-enus Lepchina. 



Type. 



Lepchina, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1904, p. 76 Jridens. 



Differs from Acosmeryx in the eyes being small, overhung by lashes; the 

 terminal segment of antennas not filiform ; the tibial spines shorter ; the 1st 

 segment of mid-tarsi without elongate spines. Forewing with the termen 



