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above tornus. Hindwiag with the extreme base deep rufous ; cilia with the tips 

 chequered white and rufous. Underside of forewing with the subcostal 

 nervure and base of veins beyond upper angle of cell finely streaked with black 

 and white, the terminal &rea between veins 8 and 2 suffused with purple, with 

 a curved white streak below extremity of vein 8. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 24 mill. 



797 c. Rhodoneura lactiguttata, n. sp. 



ft. Head and thorax white mixed with some rufous ; fore tibias and the 



tarsi brown ringed with wbite ; abdomen white with rufous segmental lines. 



Forewing white thickly reticulated with rufous ; a brown-defined antemedial 



annulus in and below cell with a forked line from its outer edge to inner 



margin, and a streak from its upper edge to a small quadrate brown spot at 



upper angle of cell, giving off two lines to inner margin, the inner excurved. 



the outer angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and forked towards inner 



margin, also a streak to apex intersected by an oblique line across apical area ; 



the reticulations of terminal area forming small round spots. Hindwmg white 



:hickly reticulated with red-brown forming small round spots not forming 



definite lines ; a dark brown point at upper angle of cell ; cilia of both wings 



rufous. Underside of forewing with the costal area red-brown and with 



flight streaks of metallic and black scales in cell and on the veins below costa. 



to apex. > 



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Habitat .— Bhutan, 3,U00' (Dudgeon). Exp, 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



S00 b. Rhodoneura dorilusaljs, Wlk., XIX, 890 (1859;. 

 Pijralh imbutalis, Wlk., XXXIV ; 1524 (1865). 



Siculodes acutipennis, Pag.. Naas. Jahrb. f. Naturif., XXXIX, p. 160- 

 (1886). 



Head, thorax and abdomen whitish mixed with red-brown. Forewing 

 whitish tinged with rufous and striated with dark brown; traces of an oblique 

 medial band ; a more distinct postmedial band from costa to discal fold and 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a curved subterminal series of striae forking 

 towards costa. Hindwing whitish tinged with rufous and striated with dark 

 brown ; an oblique postmedial band formed of dark strise ; a subterminal 

 line formed of striae and a spot at tornus. Underside of forewing with white 

 -ubterminal band from below apex to vein 5. 



Habitat. — Nicobars, Nancowry ; Borneo : Pulo Laut ; Mysol ; Aru. 

 Exp. 26 mill. 



800 c. Rhodoneura cuprizona, n. sp. 



ft. Head, thorax and abdomen greyish largely suffused with bright rufous. 

 Forewing greyish white, the basal half of inner area with some rufous and 

 >ilvery strife ; an oblique diffused cupreous red postmedial band bent inwards to 

 costa confluent with a large diffused patch from apex and leaving a triangular 

 whitish patch on costa beyond middle ; a blackish discoidal Iunule, a small spot 

 beyond lower angle of cell and two points in discal fold ; a subterminal series of 

 slight blackish points : two slight subapical whitish lunules defined by blackish 



