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towards tornus whitish ; cilia grey with a hrown line through them. Under- 

 side of forewing reddish fulvous, the disk fuscous, a fuscous striga from 

 costa towards apex, subtermina! line oblique from costa near apex to below 

 vein 7, then dentate, the area beyond it grey ; hindwing reddish fulvous, 

 the inner area and termen greyish, an indistinct curved minutely waved 

 postmedial line. 



Habitat— -IT. JP. Assam, Dibrugarh (E. C. Ward). Exp. 96 mill. Type in B. M. 



NOTODONTID/E. 



211 b. Dudusa synopla, Swinh.. A. M. N. H. (7), XIX, p. 205 (1907). 



$ . Antennee bipectinate with long branches, the apical part serrate. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some ochreous scales ; antennge black; 

 upper part of frons and vertex of head tinged with fuscous ; thoracic crest 

 with some long spatulate black scales ; pectus and legs with fuscous mixed, the 

 mid and hind tibise with small tufts of ochreous hair at extremity ; tarsi black- 

 ish, fulvous at extemities ; abdomen rufous and ochreous, with broad diffused 

 lateral fuscous bands, the anal tuft with some spatulate black hairs. Forewing 

 ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, the veins 

 blackish; a black point below base of cell ; an oblique blackish subbasal dif- 

 fused line from costa to submedian fold, with ochreous bar beyond it from costa 

 to costal nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined by ochreous on 

 inner side, waved, angled outwards on median nervure, crossed by a faint 

 diffused oblique dark fascia from submedian fold to above inner margin near 

 base, a broad diffused oblique blackish fascia from costa beyond it to termen 

 between vein 3 and submedian fold ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 ochreous, waved, oblique from vein 7 to submedian fold, then excurved, a 

 silvery white wedge-shaped mark from its inner edge to beyond it below vein 

 4 ; a rather diffused dark subterminal line arising at vein 7, oblique to vein 4, 

 excurved to vein 3, then somewhat oblique ; a series of lunules before termen 

 defined by blackish on inner side and with slight double lines on iDner side 

 cilia with a series of blackish lunules. Hindwing ochreous almost wholly 

 suffused with fuscous leaving some ochreous at base of inner margin and 

 at tornus ; a terminal series of dark lunules ; cilia pale rnfous with series of 

 blackish lunules ; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, curved waved postmedial line 

 and subterminal series of black lunules. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 118 mill. 



215 a. Rachia nodyna, Swinh., A. M. X. H. (7), XIX, p. 206 (1907). 



ft. Head and thorax pale and dark brown ; antennae and tegute blackish ; 

 metathorax with blackish dorsal fascia ; pectus and legs with fuscous mixed ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the sides pale towards base. Forewing purplish 

 brown suffused with fuscous ; antemedial line very indistinct, extremely oblique 

 from costa to vein 2 well beyond middle, then very oblique and defined 

 by a pale fascia above to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin ; 

 an oblique black streak above middle of inner margin ; a slight pale streak 

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