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£. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some white ; pectus and legs 

 mostly white ; abdomen red-brown, the tuft of long hair on basal segment 

 white with some spatulate brown scales, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 fulvous yellow very thickly irrorated with red-brown, the basal half and costal 

 area with fulvous yellow spots defined by blackish ; a round blackish discoidal 

 spot with a fulvous yellow spot beyond it ; cilia with a dark line through them 

 and whitish patches above and below middle and at tornus. Hindwing golden 

 brown ; cilia white at tips, the inner margin fringed with long white hair. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Galle (Bainbrigge-Fletcher). Exp. 18 mill. Type ;in 

 B.M. 



Hepiaupye. 



678 a. Palpiphokus pellicia, Swinh., A.M.N.H. (7), X, p. 152 (1905). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen fuscous brown. Forewing red-brown 

 with slight greyish irroration ; a white point with some dark scales round it 

 in middle of cell and a smaller point rather nearer base below the cell ; traces 

 of oblique medial, postmedial and subterminal series of brown spots defined 

 at sides by slight whitish strias. Hindwing brown with a purplish tinge ; a 

 whitish patch on termen and cilia above middle. 



Habitat— Assam, Khrfsis. Exp. $ 24, 9 28 mill, 



Drepanidye. 



732. Drepana speoularis, insert (syn) Platyptermv oblruncata, Warr., Nov. 

 Zool., VII, p. 118 (1900). The locality Bahia is a mistake. 



735. Drepana sad ana, insert (syn) Tridrepana adelpha, Swinh., A.M.N.H 

 (7), XVI, p. 620 Khasis. 



735. a. Drepana rubromarginata, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc, 189S, p. 365. 



£, Orange yellow. Forewing with indistinct somewhat diffused dark 

 antemedial line from subcostal nervure to inner margin, strongly excurved 

 below the cell ; a small spot in middle of cell and discoidal spot ; blackish 

 spots below end of cell above veins 3-2 : a slight oblique waved postmedial 

 line from vein 7 to inner' margin ; the terminal area suffused with bright 

 rufous obliquely from apex to postmedial line at lower angle of cell and thence 

 to inner margin ; a diffused lunulate band beyond the postmedial line from 

 vein 5 to inner margin, somewhat incurved below vein 2 ; a diffused subter- 

 minal series of lunulate spots, the spot above vein 5 blackish. Hindwing 

 with dark point at upper angle of cell and slight diffused medial line from cell 

 to inner margin ; diffused spots above bases of veins 32 ; a slight diffused 

 waved postmedial line, excurved from costa to vein 3, then bent inward and 

 a subterminal series of small lunulate spots from vein 6 to ir.ner margin. 



Habitat. — W. China, Pu-tsu-fong ; Sikhim, Tibet, Yatong. Exp. 40 mill. 



746. b. Phalacra rupa, n. sp. (PL F., f. 28). 



£. Head and thorax rufous slightly irrorated with grey, the vertex of head 

 whitish ; pectus and legs fuscous brown ; abdomen rufous slightly banded 

 Avith fuscous. Forewing rufous, the costal area suffused with grey and irrora- 



