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on inner side by a rufous patch below costa, the area beyond it 

 tinged with pale brown, the line minutely waved, excarved at 

 middle and bent outwards to toruus ; a terminal series of black 

 points with rufous between them ; cilia rufous mixed with blackish. 

 Hind wing with the base white with diifased black subbasal line, 

 the rest of wing slate-grey ; a fan-shaped tuft of orange scales at 

 upper angle of cell with diifased sinuous black band from it to 

 inner margin ; a sinuous black postmedial line ; a diffused black 

 subterminal band, oblique on apical area, then sinuous ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia grey and blackish; the underside greyish tinged 

 with brown at base and fuscous on terminal half. 



Hah. CErLON, HaldamuUa (Mauktuood), 1 6 type. Ea^j^. 

 14 millim. 



5016. Araeoptera leucoplaga, n. sp. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 19.) 



cJ . Head and tegulte white ; palpi and frons black ; antennte 

 brown except a.t base ; thorax white mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 with the basal half brownish and white, the terminal half black, the 

 extremity pure white ; fore legs blackish, mid and hind legs and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing fuscous brown with 

 triangular white patch from postmedial part of costa to vein 3, the 

 fine oblique dark postmedial line near its inner edge and the fine 

 white subterminal line just beyond it, excurved at middle, then 

 incurved and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of faint 

 blackish points with slight white striae before them towards apex. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with the base whitish ; a dark discoidal 

 spot, indistinct sinuous dark postmedial line and indistinct sinuous 

 whitish subterminal line ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside greyish suff'used with fuscous brown. 



llab. PuLO Laux (Doherti/), 1 (S type. Exj). 12 millim. 



5017. Araeoptera poliophaea, n. sp. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 20.) 



2 . Head and tegulae white ; palpi and frons black ; antennae 

 blackish except towards base ; thorax greyish mixed with fuscous 

 brown ; abdomen brownish at base, yellowish at middle and 

 blackish towards extremity ; fore legs blackish ; mid and hind legs 

 and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the tarsi slightly ringed 

 with black. Pore wing whitish mostly suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the basal half except towards inner margin and a patch on post- 

 medial area below costa whiter ; a subbasal black point on costa ; 

 an antemedial black point on costa with orange striga from it and 

 an oblique blackish line from subcostal nervure to inner margin 

 slightly angled outwards in submedian fold ; a black discoidal 

 point ; postmedial line with black striga from costa with slight 

 orange mark below it, then oblique to vein 6, and incurved and 

 minutely waved below vein 4 ; the postmedial part of costa with 

 alternating dark and whitish marks ; a whitish subterminal line, 



