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Grey ; palpi and antennae blackish. Fore wing witli the costal 

 edge black towards base ; antemedial black spots on subcostal and 

 median nervures and vein 1 ; an almost straight medial oblique 

 black line with some diffused fuscous beyond it on costa ; a black 

 spot at lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points 

 excurved from below costa to sabmedian fold, and with a fuscous 

 patch beyond it on costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wdng pale brownish. 



Ab. 1 . Fore wing with a broad area of fuscous suffusion on outer 

 edge of medial line. — China. 



Hah. China, Chang-hai, 1 5 ; Singapore {Ridley), 1 6 ; Celebes, 

 typef $ in Coll. Snellen. E.vp. 12-18 millim. 



544. Stictane fractilinea. 



Pitane fractilinea, Snell. Veth's Midd. -Sumatra, Lep. p. 38 (1880) ; Kirby, 



Cat.'Het,. p. 364. 

 Eiu/oa muUipuncta, Hmpsu. III. Het. B. M. ix. p. 81, pi. 158. f. 3 (1893) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 93. 



Palpi and frons fuscous ; vertex of head, tegulse, and patagia 

 whitish ; thorax and abdomen fuscous. Pore wing whitish, more 



or less strongly tinged with 

 brown ; a curved antemedial 

 series of three black spots on 

 the veins ; a medial line with 

 fuscous band on its outer 

 edge, excurved from below 

 costa to submedian fold and 

 interrupted in cell ; two dis- 

 'F^g.Vl'i:— Stictane fractilinea, S- \- coidal black spots ; a curved 



postmedial series of black 

 points from below costa to above inner margin, with a slight fuscous 

 mark on costa beyond it : a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing pale, the terminal half suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 4000 feet (Pilcher), 1 $ ; Ceylon, Dickoya (Green), 

 1 d" , 1 $ type multipimcta ; Sumatra ; Java, 1 5 . Exp. 13-18 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Snellen. 



Genus LOBOBASIS. ^ 



lype. 



Lohobasis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 498 (1896) niveimaculata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, not reaching vertex of 

 head ; antennis of male ciliated ; tibiaj with the inner spurs long, the outer 

 short. Fore wing short and broad, the costa strongly arched at base, then 

 nearly straight ; vein 2 from near end of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6 from 

 below upper angle; 7, 8 stalked; 9 absent; 10, 11 free, the latter curved; 

 male with a rounded patch of rough scales below base of costa, a curved ridge 

 of hair from the costa beyond it to base of inner margin. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7 stalked, 

 7 curved ; 8 from middle of cell, curved ; male with elliptical patch of andro- 

 conia on upperside below the costa on vein 8 and subcostal nervure. 



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