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cilia with a blackish line through them ; the underside white, the costal 

 area irrorated with rufous and blackish, a blackish discoidal spot, somewhat 

 dentate postmedial line and terminal series of lunules. 

 Habitat. — Kashmir, Exp. 26 mill. 



Genus Elusa. 



Type. 

 Elusa, Wlk., xvi, 202 (1858) . . . . . . . . ceneusalis. 



Alimala, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., vi., p. 153 (1862).. ceneusalis. 

 Seria, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., vi., p. 193 (1862) . . cyathicornis. 

 Penza, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., vii., p. 56 (1864) . . puncticeps. 

 Lugana, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 145 (1882) . . . . antennata. 



Desana, Swinh., Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii., p. 26 (1900) . . peninsulata. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to or 

 to above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate or long, 

 somewhat porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes hairy, large, round ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and meta-thorax with spreading crests; 

 tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, 

 the crests on 3rd segment large. Forewing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate, the inner margin with scale-tooth 

 at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of dis- 

 cocellulars ; 6'7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. — Antennte of male with the basal half of shaft bipectinate with 

 short coalesced contorted branches, the medial part of shaft with 

 rounded vesicle formed of coalesced branches and hollowed out in 

 front, the terminal third of shaft pectinate above minutely serrate 

 near the vesicle below ; the hind tibise dilated and fringed with long 

 hair behind. 

 B (Seria). Palpi of male with the 2nd joint reaching to 

 about vertex of head. 



a. Forewing with straight whitish subterminal line 

 defined by small dark spots on inner side. 



a 1 . Forewing with the terminal half pale, the basal half 



blackish. . . . . . . . . . . antennata. 



b 1 . Forewing uniform brown . . . . . . cyathicornis. 



b. Forewing with subterminal series of small whitish 



spots with dark spots on their inner side . . . . bipars. 



1852. Elusa antennata. 

 1851. Elusa cyathicornis. 

 1850. Elusa bipars. 



1682c. MlSELIA CONSPERSA. 



