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margin; an oblique, ochreous shade from apex; an oblique ochreous line from 

 termen just below apex to inner margin, fine towards apex and broadening 

 towards inner margin, defined on each side by dark brown suffusion ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous tipped with brown. 

 Hindwing ochreous suffused with brown, the base and termen paler ; the 

 underside ochreous irrorated with brown, the terminal half suffused with 

 brown, a dark discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Burma, Hsipaw. Ex^:). 26 mill. 



i798c. Phkagmatiphila grisescens. 



Phragynatiphila grisescens, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M, ix. 

 p. 270, pi. 143, f. 2 (1910). 



2 . Head and thorax grey tinged with dull brown ; pectus, legs and 

 abdomen suffused with fuscous. Forewing grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the cell and area just below it suffused with fuscous, 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous narrowing to a point at apex ; 

 traces of a blackish antemedial line bent inwards to costa and excurved 

 in cell and submedian interspace ; reniform a small ochreous lunule defined 

 by black ; traces of an oblique waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; 

 traces of a blackish postmedial line, oblique towards costa, then with series 

 of black points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 a terminal series of minute black lunules defined on inner side by slight 

 ochreous lunules. Hindwing greyish suffused with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside brownish white irrorated with brown, a small dark discoidal 

 spot. 



Habitat.— QiKHiM, 1,800'. Exp. 34 mill. 



Genus Calamistis. 



Ttjpe. 



Calamistis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix., p. 273 (1910) . . fusca. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna) of male typically bipectinate with 

 moderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed with long hair and hair-like 

 scales, the pro-and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with 

 long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3-4 from angle of 

 cell ; o obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex. 



1942a. Calamisxis pr^epallens. 



Calamistis praapallens, Hampsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix, 

 p. 275, pi. 143, f. 7 (1910). 



