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postmedial bands from below costa to inner margin ; a slight dark 

 discoidal striga on outer edge of the medial band ; the extremity of the 

 lower lobe yellowish. Hindwing with antemedial and postmedial yellowish 

 bands, the extremities of the lobes yellowish. 



Habiiat. — Cevlon, Trincomali (E. E. Green). Exp. 10 mill. Type in 

 B. M. 



PYKAUSTIKiE. 



4768a. Massepha kufescbns, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 44). 

 Hindwing with veins 4, 5 strongly stalked. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen dark-brown mixed with yellowish white 

 the frons and head between antennsB paler ; palpi yellowish Avhite, the 1st 

 and 2nd joints banded with brown ; legs yellowish white tinged with 

 brown. Forewing reddish brown irrorated with dark brown on inner area ; 

 the costa and terminal area pale j'ellow ; antemedial patches of diffused 

 black scales below the cell and vein 1 ; a discoidal whitish patch with a 

 brown striga on discocellulars ; an oblique brown postmedial line defined on 

 outer side by a whitish band. Hindwing red-brown, the basal half i.'-rorated 

 with dark-brown and greyish scales ; an indistinct oblique dark discoidal 

 spot ; an indistinct sinuous brown postmedial line faintly defined on outer 

 side by greyish ; the aj)t!X pale yellow ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 half sutfused with brown, a dark spot in cell near base and prominent 

 discoidal lunule, the postmedial line more distinct. 



Habitat.— Madb.as, Nilgiris (Andre wes). E.v2). 16 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4783. Hehimena phrynealis. 



Larva. Pale grass-green; skin semi-transparent ; somites well-defined: 

 dorsal stripe slightly darker green ; a few fine black specks on the head 

 and 2nd somite ; ventral surface and legs much paler ; head ochreous 

 yellow. Feeds spun up in the leaves of a creeper. (W. H. Campbell.) 

 4850«. NosoPHORA MESosTicTA, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax brown, the frons, vertex of head and tegulse with 

 some whitish ; pectus and legs ochreous white with some brown ; abdomen 

 brown with white dorsal bar at base, the ventral surface white. Forewing 

 brown ; a small white spot in middle of cell and a bar beyond the cell ex- 

 panding into a rounded patch between veins 4 and 2. Hindwing brown 

 with round whit?* spot beyond the cell. 



Habiiat. — Assam, Khasis. Icj'type. ^.rp. 28 mill. 

 48{4a. BoccHOKis albinalis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax pure white, the patagia with rufous point ; fore tibiae 

 with rufous band at extremity ; abdomen white' dorsally tinged with 

 rufous. Forewing pure white ; a subbasal rufous striga from costa and 

 slight curved mark above inner margin ; antemedial line double, rufous, 

 oblique and sinuous ; medial line double, rufous, enclosing a rufous discoidal 



