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and edges of j)atagia red-brown, the scales edged with white, legs 

 and abdomen red-brown and greyish. Fore wing olive-yellow 

 (? faded from green), slightly irrorated with red-brown and the 

 veins defined by rufous ; subbasal line represented by double dark 

 striae from costa, cell, and vein 1 ; antemedial line double, inter- 

 rupted at the veins, angled outwards below costa ; claviform 

 moderate, red-brown defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform with 

 some rufous in centres and defined by black, open above and below, 

 the former oblique elliptical ; a waved medial line oblique from costa 

 to below cell ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, 

 then somewhat dentate, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa with short dark streaks between 

 them ; subtermiiial line pale defined by somewhat dentate red- 

 brown marks before it and dark marks beyond it, 'angled, outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a prominent terminal lunulate 

 black line. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia greyish with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside greyish suffused and 

 irrorated with brown, a large dark discoidal lunule and curved 

 somewhat waved postmedial line. 



Hab. SikhijM (Russell), 1 5 fype olivascens. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus XYLINISSA, nov. 



Type, X. cossoides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to about vertex of head, fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd joint moderate ; frons smooth, rounded ; eyes large; 

 antennae of ruale bi^oectiuate with short branches on upper side, serrate on lower, 

 the apical part ciliated ; head and thoras clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex somewhat produced and the 

 termen oblique from middle to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below angle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 rather shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing without fuscous striae. 



a. Fore wing with the basal and medial costal areas not 



suffused with white lignitis. 



h. Fore wing with the basal and medial costal areas suffused 



with white oniroe. 



B. Fore wing with prominent fuscous striae cossoides. 



*2528. Xylinissa lignicis. (Plate CIV. fig. 22.) 

 Xylinissa lignitis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xsx. p. 97 (1906). 



(5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey. Pore 

 wing purplish grey suffused with reddish brown especially in and 

 beyond end of cell ; a slight sinuous black streak below base of cell; 

 traces of a waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform grey 

 defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, conjoined to a similar 

 round spot below the cell ; postmedial line hardly defined except by 

 the rufous area beyond the cell, bent outwards below costa and 



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