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B. Fore wing without white or pale basal patch. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with red and 



defined bj black turpis. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform whitish defined by white 



poin ts tonsa. 



c. Fore wing with the reniform a black lunule defined by 



red hmmorrhanta. 



4107. Hypoperigea albonotota. 



Tarache albonotat%, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 96, pi. 162. f. 22 (1893) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 312. 

 Tarache plumhicula, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 475 (1906). 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown mixed with grey ; patagia 

 white except at base and upper edge ; pectus and legs white mixed 

 with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 white irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing dark purplish brown 

 suffused with fuscous and slightly irrorated with grey ; a large 

 elliptical white patch slightly tinged with rufous on basal area in 

 and below cell, another oblique patch from costa beyond antemedial 

 line to lower angle of cell where it is met by a broad oblique fascia 

 from apex forming a wide V-shaped mark ; antemedial line black, 

 oblique, waved, much interrupted ; claviform with its upper edge 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform obliterated by the 

 white patches, a small brown spot at lower angle of ceil ; post- 

 medial line interrupted at the white patch on which it is repre- 

 sented by a few dark scales, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved and minutely dentate ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of small dentate black marks 

 with slight rufous marks on their outer edges and a white spot in 

 submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black Innules slightly 

 defined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, especially on terminal area ; cilia ochreous white with a 

 slight brown line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the under- 

 side white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a 

 small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line with minute dark 

 streaks on the veins, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Ab. 1. plumhicula. Patagia, the oblique patch at base of fore 

 wing and the V-shaped patch, except towards apex, suffused and 

 irrorated with purplish brown. 



Hab. Ceylon {Green), 1 5 type, Gampola (MacJcivood), 1 2 ? 

 Matale (Pole), 1 c? type plumbicula, Madulsima ( Vaiighan), 1 S . 

 Exp. 26-32 millim. 



4108. Hypoperigea leprosticta. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Euplexia leprosticta, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 469 (1906). 



Head and thorax pale and deep rufous, the frons with blackish 

 lateral bars, the tegulse with blackish line near tips, the patagia 

 white except at base, the protborax with white patches ; pectus 

 and legs whitish and rufous ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 



