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

 inner. Fore wing with the apex produced, the outer margin 

 oblique ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 

 straight and well separated from 8, 9 ; male with a fovea below 

 the cell at origin of vein 2. Hind wing with the costa lobed and 

 fringed with hair near base ; the cell extremely short and the 

 discocellulars produced for a long way along median nervure so 

 that veins 3, 4, 5 appear to be stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 

 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Type. Paebattia vialis Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 225, pi. 7. f. 30. 



N.E. India. 



Genus 109. Discothyeis. 



Discothyris Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 473 (1895). 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore 

 wing with the costa arched towards apex, which is acute ; the outer 

 margin angled at vein 4 ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 7 curved and approximated for a short distance to 8, 

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

 margin produced to a point at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; 

 vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8; a large tuft of 

 hair on median nervure at lower angle of cell. 



Fig. 109. 



Discothyris ferruginata, S • t- (From Moths Ind. vol, iv.) 

 Type. (l)tDiscoTHYEis feeeugin ata Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 209. Sikhim. 



(2)*DiscoTHYEis YESTiGTALis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 628. 



Sikhim. 

 (3) Discothyeis megalophalis, n. sp. 



(S . Dull ferruginous brown ; palpi white below at base. Fore 

 wing with discocellular black lunule ; a postraedial series of black 

 specks, most prominent towards costa and forming a larger spot on 

 costa, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique. 

 Hind wing with the tuft very large, extending along vein 2 and 

 blackish, a postmedial sinuous black line somewhat maculate 

 between veins 5 and 2; both wings with black line at base of 

 cilia. 



Hah. Khasis. Eccji. 18 mm. Type in Coll. Eothschild. 



