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fourth longitudinal bifurcates between one-fourth and one-third 

 of the wing. A small spot, consisting of numerous rather strong 

 black hairs, at the tip of each vein, and a similar spot at the 

 bifurcations of the upper prong of the second longitudinal vein, 

 and of the fourth vein, these two spots being in a straight line with 

 the last spot on the posterior margin. The first spot on the 

 anterior border, the last one on the posterior border, and the upper 

 discal spot, are all larger and darker than the others, but this may 

 be accidental. 



The hairs in some parts of the disc of the wing are distinctly 

 darker and show a tendency to form black patches, and along 

 most of the veins are short rows and bunches, here and there, of 

 quite white, erect, short, bristly hairs, becoming almost scale-like 

 in the small tuft-like spots of them on the margin of the wing, 

 placed alternatel}^ with the black marginal hair-spots. These give 

 the border of the wing a strikingly distinct, tesselated appearance 

 composed of black and white spots alternately. Wing-border with 

 a fringe of blackish grey hair, which is shortest on the distal por- 

 tion, especially on the apical part of the costa. Hal teres rather 

 large, cup-shaped, with hairy upper edge, the stem being very 

 narrow and short. 



Genitalia in & : Superior appendages consisting of a short, 

 stout, cylindrical basal joint, and a distal one which is shaped like 

 a scorpion's sting, consisting of a basal bulb, and a slightly coiled, 

 tube-like prolongation of about the same length. Inferior append- 

 ages arising from a broad, rather short basal plate, than which 

 they are considerably larger ; themselves sickle-shaped, each bear- 

 ing at the distal end, on the dorsal surface, a pair of flattened, 

 spatulate spinules, the whole joint covered with fine hairs. 



Described from a male and two females in the Indian Museum 

 collection, taken by Dr. Annandale during May 1907 and 1908 at 

 Simla (7,000 feet). 



Var. lacteitarsis, mihi. 



Three 5 specimens in the Indian Museum taken by 

 Dr. Annandale at Kurseong, 4-vii-o8, agree perfectly with the 

 above description, but differ by the pubescence of the thorax 

 and abdomen being much darker (nearly black), and by all the 

 tarsi being wholly milk-white. This variety approaches gilvipes, 

 but the black hair-spots at the tips of the veins in the wings are as 

 distinct as in the typical margininotata, whereas in gilvipes they 

 are much less distinct, and in this latter form the metatarsi are 

 black, whilst in lacteitarsis they are white. 



Var. gilvipes, mihi. 



9 . Considerably resembling typical margininotata , but is 

 smaller, and the general colour of the long hair of the thorax 

 and abdomen is more brownish grey. The basal joints of the 

 antennae are invisible, owing to the position of the head in the 



