AEBOKICORNIS, 



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Sect. T. Palpi obliquely upturned. 



3178. Arboricornis rubra. 



Arhoricormcs ruber, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 258 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some red-brown ; 

 tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen red-brown, the crests black- 

 brown. Pore wing very dark red-brown with a patch of pale 

 red-brown on inner medial area, some pale red-brown before 

 costal half of postmedial line and a spot on postmedial area below 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, filled in with some pale 

 red-brown, strongly excurved ; claviform represented by a slight 

 black streak, the orbicular by a small black spot ; reniform a 

 narrow greyish bar defined by some black scales ; medial line 

 indistinct, difi'used and oblique from lower angle of cell to inner 



Fig. 57- — Arboricornis rubra, (^ . \. 



margin ; postmedial line dark brown defined by pale red-brown on 

 outer side, minutely waved and slightly excurved from below costa 

 to vein 2, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, dark, difi'used, defined on outer side by 

 a pale bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of pale points. Hind wing ochreous 

 strongly suffused with silky red-brown ; cilia ochreous at tips ; the 

 underside with slight dark discoidal spot and traces of sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Assam, Khtisis, 2 c? , ISTagas, type f in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 24-28 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi porrect, extending about twice the length of head, the 3rd joint 

 downturned. 



3179. Arboricornis chrysopepla, n. sp. 



6 . Head and thorax yellow tinged with red, the vertex of 

 thorax whitish ; palpi, antenna?, and legs red-brown ; abdomen 

 yellowish white irrorated with brown, the crests blackish. Fore 

 wing golden yellow tinged with red ; a brownish patch at base 

 of costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, rufous, waved, an oblique 

 red-brown shade from costa just beyond it to median nervure ; 

 black points at lower and upper angles of cell; postmedial line 



