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Ab. 2, The type. Hind wing with the subtermiual line defined 

 on inner side by black. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the subterminal line defined on inner side 

 by black from below cost a to vein 4 and with black beyond ifc 

 extending on to the cilia at apex and middle. 



Hah. Ceylon, 2 c^" type, Puttalam {Pole), 2 c^' , 1 $ ; Pulo Lattt 

 (Doherty), 3 c?, 4 5 ; Bali (Dohertt/), 1 c? , 12; Sumbawa, lam bora 

 (Doherty), 1 2 ; Louisiades, Rossel I. (Meek), 1 d" ; L'Enxrkcasteaux 

 Is., Goodenough I. (Meel-), 1 $ . E^y. 10-16 millim. 



Genus HOLOCRYPTIS. 



1 ype. 

 Hohcrppds, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vii. p. '25fi (1892). phasianura. 

 Troctoptera, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 99 (1893) erubescmis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2tid joint reaching 

 about to middle of Irons, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennte of male laminate ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and 

 without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled, the inner spui's long ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangulai", the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the costa excised 

 beyond nnddle ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above 

 angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with oblique black medial band; hind wing 



with the terminal area blood-red hisccfalis. 



B. Fore wing without oblique black medial band ; hind wing 



with the terminal area not blood-red. 

 a. Hind wing with bright rufous subterminal band. 



cf'. Hind wing with blue-black band bejond the 



postiuedial line jjhadanura. 



hK Hind wing without blue-black band beyond the post- 

 medial line eruhescens. 



h. Hind wing without rufous subterminal band. 



ff'. Fore wing with brown patches in and beyond end of 



cell permacidata. 



h^. Fore wing without brown patches in and beyond end 

 of cell. 

 «^. Fore wing with subterminal black spot on inner 

 margin. 

 a?. Fore wing with the terminal area not suffused 

 with black, 

 «'. Hind wing with black discoidal point on a 



white patch enclosed by a brown annidus ... erosides. 

 /;■'. Hind wing with rufous bar or points at end 



ot cell melanosticta, 



h'^. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with 



black atrifusa. 



h". Fore wing without subterminal black spot on 



inner margin ussuriensis. 



5303. Holocryptis bisectalis. (Plate CLV. fig. 1.) 

 Cataclysta bisectalis, Wlk. xvii. 449 (1859); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 617. 



Head and thorax white very slightly tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with brown especially towards extremity and 

 with dorsal series of blackish points. Fore wing white, a black 



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