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C. discios KoU. (61 h). Forewing slaty grey, finely speckled with darker; inner line nearly vertical at discios. 

 Vs. inwardly bounded by a lino pale line, outwardly by narrow blackish fuscous suffusion above median vein, 

 which swells out below and fills up the whole space to outer line; outer line black at 2 / 3 , followed by a 

 blackish fuscous band, slightly incurved to costa and excurved to inner margin; before the outer line the 

 grey is paler; the line itself just below vein 2 runs for a short way bascwards, is then roundly upcurved 

 to touch renil'orin, is bluntly angled inwards on submedian fold, I hen runs obliquely, straight or curved, to 

 inner margin: subterminal line lnnulate dentate, the inward teeth marked black on veins; terminal area 

 beyond it grey; terminal line diffusely dark; rcniforin stigma oblong, its lateral edges dark, externally followed 

 by a black triangle; hindwing fuscous, the terminal border broadly darker; separated by a paler space from 

 a dark median line: in ab. latiorata ab. nov. (61 h) the outer line is nearer termen, which is more oblique, latiorata. 

 the apex being somewhat produced, so that the median area, more especially at costa, is much wider; the 

 inner line is not straight, but either bent in cell and above inner margin, or curved; a dark orbicular is 

 sometimes visible; the grey ground colour is paler, especially on the underside. Both forms are from 

 X. \V. India, the darker from Subathu and Kumaon, the paler from Kulu; the species almost certainly occurs in 

 Kashmir: Leech records it also from Kiushiu, so that it may plausibly be anticipated from Yesso and Japan. 



28. Genus: Erclieia Walk. 



Tongue present; irons smooth, with a slight tuft of hair above; palpi upturned, stout, the second 

 segment thickly scaled and roughened below, the third long and smooth; antennae of cf almost simple; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter sometimes with crests on basal segments, and the patagia strongly 

 developed: hindtibiae spined as well as the midtibiae; foretibiae of cf hairy; the species often very variable. 

 Type E. cyllaria Cram. 



E. umbrosa Btlr. {Qi h). Forewing woodbrown with dark brown suffusion, the ? deeper brown than umbrosa. 

 the cf ; veins dark lined with pale woodbrown; a pale streak from base along vein 1, edged with dark, below 

 which the inner margin is paler, especially in the ??; lines black, edged with pale brown, very obscure, 

 chiefly visible on inner margin; the outer line oblique from costa to vein 6 and generally plain, interrupted 

 below, and reappearing as a double black mark on submedian fold, where it is preceded by a pale brown 

 line ; subterminal line ochreous, visible only from vein 2 to inner margin, emitting above vein 2 a pale streak 

 into the terminal fringe ; it is followed, in the cf only, by a bluish white patch on inner margin ; hindwing 

 brownish fuscous, much darker in ¥, with traces of a darker pale-edged sinuous middle line, and with a pale 

 spot subterminally on the submedian fold; in the ab. variegata ab. nov. (=ab. 3 Hmps.) the central area of variegata. 

 forewing of c? is paler and the markings consequently better defined; the ?? throughout are larger and dark 

 woodbrown, corresponding to the Indian striyipennis Moore. 



E. niveostrigata spec. nov. (= umbrosa Hmps. ab. 2)(61h). Like umbrosa cf, but the horizontal streak n ™fa Siri ~ 

 on submedian fold immediately preceding the outer line is prominently snow white; the British Museum 

 Collection possesses a cf only of this form, naturally referred by Bampson to the preceding species; but in 

 the Tring Museum there is a ? of exactly the same size and coloration as the cf; so that these can hardly 

 be the same species as umbrosa, which has the 2 so much larger and always dark brown in coloration. 

 China only. 



29. Genus: Sypnoides Hmps. 



Tongue developed: frons smooth, flat; palpi erect, upturned in front of face; second segment rough- 

 haired, third nearly as long as second, smooth and slender; antennae of cf long, thick, strongly crenulate 

 beneath, either with fasciculate cilia or bipectinate ; prothorax and metathorax with large crests, dorsum crested; 

 legs strong and long: the mid and hind tibiae spined; wings ample, with crenulate termen. Type S. mandarina 

 Leech. Distinguished from Sijpna Guen. mainly by the spined tibiae. 



Sect. 1. Antennae of cf bipectinate, the apex ciliated. 



S. mandarina Leech. Forewing dull grey brown with darker irroration; lines dark brown, waved, not mandarina. 

 very distinct; the inner limiting the dark purple brown basal patch; the median curved, plainer at each end: 

 the outer excurved round cell: submarginal line double, with a brown black patch at each end, that on costa 

 not reaching apex, that at anal angle larger and with a blotch of white scales on it; a row of dark spots 

 before termen; hindwing with a dark patch at anal angle only on a double submarginal shade, preceded by 

 a dark outer line with paler edging; underside of forewing with two dark bands and a broad submarginal 

 shade; of hindwing with dark outer line and traces of a submarginal shade: cellspot of forewing pale, of 

 hindwing pale wih dark lateral edges. W. China. Closely resembles pannosa Moore from India, but the 

 antennae of cf are bipectinate. 



