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produced to points at and below apex and excurved at middle. Hindwing 

 with the termen sinuous. 



116a. Lepchina tridens, Obuth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 76. 



£. Head and thorax violaceous grey ; abdomen brown ; ventral surface 

 reddish. Fore wing violaceous grey with velvety brown lines and patches; the 

 basal area with three lines followed by a postmedial triangular patch touching 

 a discoidal point with its inner edge and extending from costa to termen and 

 inner margin ; the apical area with some streaks and marks. Hindwing brown 

 with darker medial and terminal shades. Underside ferruginous red ; fore- 

 wing with the basal half blackish, two greyish costal patches, a sinuous terminal 

 violet grey patch on both wings with medial whitish mark on forewing ; two 

 double brown lines on hindwing with greyish costal patch beyond them. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. Exp. about 64 mill. This species is unknown to me. 



181. Macroglossa gyrans. 



Larva. — Velvety black with green and pink lateral stripes faintly striated 

 with black ; spiracular stripe interrupted, similar in colour ; the spiracles pink 

 with white centres ; head glabrous, green or pale red ; thoracic plate horny ; 

 horn black. 



Pupa. — Ochreous with black spots at sides. 5. (W. H. Campbell.) 



198. Macroglossa rectifascia. 



Larva. — Pale yellow with faint blue transverse lines ; dorsal line very dark 

 blue edged with pale blue from 3rd to anal somite ; lateral line similar, arising 

 from two large black spots on 2nd somite and terminating just before two 

 large black spots on anal somite ; below this is a series of black specks; a broad 

 sublateral black band spotted with pale blue ; head prominent, dull green ; legs 

 black ; clasp ers spotted with black ;horn pale blue with a black ring at base. 

 Food plant : Photinia Lindleyana. 5. (W. H. Campbell.) 



PERGESIN/E. 



, I37e. Rhagastis leucocraspis, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 25). 



$ . Head grey ; palpi whitish at sides ; tegulse and patagia chocolate 

 brown with grey-white stripe on outer edge ; vertex of thorax grey-brown ; 

 pectus and legs pale grey tinged with rufous ; abdomen with the 1st three 

 segments chocolate brown, the rest of dorsum greyish tinged with fulvous, 

 the sides whitish, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Forewing purplish 

 grey suffused in parts with rufous ; a subbasal rufous shade on costal area, the 

 base of inner margin chocolate brown : two obliquely curved antemedial brown 

 lines, widely separated at costa, approximated at vein 1 where they terminate ; 

 an oblique rufous shade from costa at antemedial line to medial line at vein 3 ; 

 medial line double, waved, obliquely curved from costa to vein 2, then slightly 

 excurved ; postmedial line obliquely curved, dentate, at veins 4-3 produced 

 to points and with slight fulvous marks on it ; a triangular chocolate brown 

 patch on costa just before apex, the faint waved subterminal line arising from 

 it ; the apex slightly tinged with white ; cilia dark- brown. Hindwing black- 

 brown, the inner margin, terminal area in submedian interspace and termen 



