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the costal and inner areas suffused with dark-brown to the medial band : two 

 indistinct, somewhat irregular dark antemedial lines ; a broad oblique dark 

 medial band before the indistinct postmedial line which is bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 5, then oblique ; an indistinct subterminal 

 line excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique. Hindwing red-brown 

 thickly striated with dark-brown, on terminal half forming numerous annulate 

 spots ; a small black discoidal spot and slight medial line excurved between, 

 veins 5 and 2 ; the termen strongly excurved at middle. 

 Habitat. -Sikhim, Gantok. Exp. 32 mill. 



LlMACODIDJK. 



817a. Scapelodes tantula, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), XIV., p. 132 ( 19U4). 

 dinawa, Beth-Baker, Nov. Zool., XX, p. 382(1904). 



£ , Head and thorax grey mixed with fulvous, and fuscous ; palpi black 

 at tips ; abdomen fulvous, dorsal ly mixed with fuscous except at base. Fore- 

 wing fuscous thickly irrorated with grey, and tinged with fulvous on disk ; a 

 diffused fulvous streak below base of cell ; cilia tinged with fulvous. Hind- 

 wing fuscous, the basal and inner areas and veins fulvous ; cilia fulvous mixed 

 with fuscous. 



Habitat. — Assam. Khnsis ; British New Guinea, Dinawa. Exp. 42 mill. 



823a. Oxyplax pulvata, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 16). 



ft . Antennas much thickened and flattened, simple ; metathorax with 

 spreading crest of scales ; forewing with the inner margin lobed before middle 

 and with tuft of scales. 



Head and thorax fulvous mixed with some blackish ; abdomen fuscous.. 

 Forewing fulvous with a cupreous tinge and brown suffusion ; the basal area 

 suffused with dark brown to the obliquely curved diffused medial line ; the 

 terminal area suffused with black, broadly at costa and narrowing towards 

 tornus ; cilia chequei'ed fulvous and black and with black tips. Hindwing 

 fuscous, cilia grey, fuscous at base and with fuscous line through them. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B. M. 



835/a Thosea flaviceps, n. sp. 



Male with the palpi extending about length of head, female about three 

 times length of head. 



Head and thorax yellow with slight rufous dorsal streak, the terminal half 

 of thorax suffused with rufous ; pectus, legs and abdomen rufous slightly 

 mixed with yellowish. Forewing deep rufous, the area beyond the post- 

 medial line browner to submedian fold ; some silvery suffusion on median 

 nervure and vein 1, on terminal half of costal area, and on terminal area : 

 an indistinct very oblique brown postmedial line from costa just before apex 

 to middle of submedian fold ; an indistinct somewhat oblique brown sub- 

 terminal line. Hindwing red-brown with a slight pinkish tinge. 



Habitat.— Assam, Khasis (Badgley). Exp. ft 34, $ 40 mill. Type in B. M. 



Larva. — With long pointed prominences bearing stinging hair ; solitary : 

 rolls itself up and drops when alarmed ; very dark maroon with fine red and 



