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a marginal white line emitting 



and becoming bris^bt red at costa 



a curved mark below the apical red patch. Hind wing pearly 

 white ; the outer ai*ea brown and fuscous, almost whoUy suffused 

 with silvery purple, and with its medial part defined by a black 

 line on inner side ; a marginal white line ; cilia of both w ings 

 pale brown, with silvery reflections. 



Hah. Kikuya, German E. Africa (Ansorrje) ; Sierra Leone 

 {ClernenU). Exp. 24 mm. Type in B.M. 



(7) XOOEDA XIGEOPO'CTAXIS, n. sp. 



S ■ Yellowish white ; palpi, sides of head, and shoulders brown ; 

 anal tuft fuscous. Fore «ing with the costa reddish brown ; two 

 black points in cell, one at each angle and one on middle of inner 

 margin ; terminal area purplish fuscous, with minutely waved 

 black line on its inner edge, bent outwards at vein 3. Hind wing 

 with the apical area purple-fuscous, with minutely waved black 

 line on its inner edge. 



Hah. Perak ; Gunong Ijan. Malav States. Exp. 18 mm. 

 Types in Coll. KothschUd and B.M. 



Genus 127. Dattsaba. 



Dausara Wit. xvii. 507 (1859). 



Palpi porrect, rather long, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint 

 hidden; maxillary palpi with a long sharp tuft from extremity; 

 frons flattened and oblique : antennie of male much thickened and 

 flattened ; tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of 

 inner. Fore wing with the inner margin lobed at middle ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 curved and closely approximated 

 to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing with the 

 cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. 



Fig. 127. 



Dausara ialliugalis, J . 



(From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with the median nervure bent 

 upwards ; a large tuft of scales on underside below its basal 

 half, and a smaller tuft in middle of cell. 



Type. (1) Dausaba tallifsalis Wlk. xvii. 507. Assam ; Burma ; 



Andamans ; Borneo. 

 fGJyphodes marr/inalis Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 618, pi. 60. f . 15. 



