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incurved below costa and vein 2 and minutely dentate between those points, 

 a series of small black spots defined by white on inner side before termen ; 

 a fine black terminal line. Hindwing grey suffused with brown, a rather 

 darker terminal line ; the underside rufous, the inner area pale. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Trincomali (Green). Exp. 50 mill. Type in B. M. 



293&. Notodonta collaris, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), XIV., p. 132 (1904"). 



£. Palpi, frons, antennae and thorax red-brown ; vertex of head and 

 telugas white, the latter with black tips ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen 

 red-brown with dark dorsal patch at extremity. Forewing pale, almost entirely 

 suffused with red brown, leaving the submedian interspace and the area 

 below costa towards apex paler; the costal area to beyond middle, the cell, 

 and area from below end of cell to near termen below vein 4 and the terminal 

 area below apex suffused with fuscous; a white point at base of median neuvure; 

 two fine brown streaks in basal half of submedian fold; traces of an 

 irregular brown antimedial line ; some dark points in end of cell and a slight 

 discoidal bar ; traces of an oblique dentate postmedial line ; the apical half of 

 terminal area with dark streaks in the interspaces and short oblique streaks 

 below extremities of veins 4 and 3. Hindwing red-brown. 



Habitat. — A&sam, Khasis. Exp. 48 mill. 



iEGEKIAD^. 

 Genus Sphecosesia, nov. 



Type. — S. pedunculata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with long hair in front at 

 base, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; anten- 

 nas of male minutely serrate and fasciculate, strongly dilated beyond middle ; 

 legs without tufts of hairs on the joints; abdomen strongly pedunculate at base 

 and narrowing to extremity. Forewing with vein 2 present ; 7*8 stalked. 

 Hindwing with the discocellulars erect ; veins 3-4 stalked. 



362a. Sphecosesia pedunculata, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 14). 



$. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous ; palpi yellow suffused 

 with rufous ; frons with lateral white lines ; basal joint of antennae white in 

 front ; coxae whitish ; tibise with whitish bands at middle and extremity, the 

 tarsi whitish at base ; abdomen dark reddish brown with white segmental lines 

 on the dilated part, the extremity rufous, the ventral surface with rufous 

 segmental lines. Wings hyaline, the veins and margins dark brown. 



Habitat. — Sikhim (Bingham). Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 



367a. iEGERIA cyanopasta, n. sp. (PL F., f. 20). 



Antennae with long cilia. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen black irrorated with silvery blue scales; 

 neck with orange ring. Forewing black shot with purple, and irrorated with me- 

 tallic blue green scales ; an orange streak above inner margin before middle, 

 a wedge-shaped patch in end of cell and an elliptical patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 8 and 3 with slight dark streak on the veins. Hindwing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black-brown ; an oblique discoidal bar. Underside of 



