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cimens there an- three dark specks beyond lower angle of cell; hindwing fuscous grey. The species, which 

 occurs in the N. W. Himalayas and in the Nilgiri Hills in the South of India, is also found in China. 



B. consanguis Leech (70 c). Closely allied to captata Btlr., but more violaceous grey; lines in the same consanguis. 

 position relatively, but the inner line is more oblique, and the outer more sharply angled; the median line 

 is straight, not sinuous; the dark costal patch larger, not indented on its outer edge, while that before apex is 

 more triangular; the examples on the average smaller. Central and Western China: lehang, Changyang, 

 Nitou, Moupin. 



B. apicalis Leech. Forewing pale cinnamon brown; the lines paler; the inner oblique, the outer curved; apicalis. 

 the stigmata outlined with pale; on outer third of costa a conspicuous chocolate brown blotch with its outer 

 edge indented; below it above inner margin a small brown spot; hindwing cupreous brown, the termen suf- 

 fused with fuscous. The type specimen from Chekiang, E. China; there is a specimen in the British Museum 

 collection from Burma. 



56. Genus: Scedopla Btlr. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the third segment short; antennae of <$ bipectinate 

 or ciliated; hindwing with veins 6,7 stalked. Type S. regalis Btlr. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <J bipectinate. 



S. regalis Btlr. Forewing dark brown with a purple sheen in basal 2 / 3 , terminal third deep sandy regalis. 

 yellowish ; a broad band across middle of wing indicated by sinuous black lines limiting it ; cell mark black ; 

 subterrninal line denoted by a dark costal patch before it; terminal dots black, minute; hindwing brown, 

 with the costal area whitish; termen and fringe sandy whitish. Yokohama, Japan. 



Sect. II. Antennae of (J ciliated. 



S. bifidalis Leech. Forewing with the basal two thirds brownish buff, clouded along termen and towards bifidalis. 

 apex with darker brown; the line that limits the two shades blackish edged with whitish, sharply toothed 

 below middle ; a dark wavy inner line ; a discal series of black dots forming an indistinct S ; hindwing fuscous, 

 paler towards costa; underside fuscous; the hindwing with a darker central line. 



S. mollis Btlr. (70 c). Forewing pale grey with a lilac tinge in places; costal edge yellow; inner mollis. 

 and outer lines brown, the inner bent, the outer excurved, below costa, then nearly parallel, inwardly oblique; 

 a median shade close before outer line; subterrninal slight, obscure; termen diffusely cupreous brown; fringe 

 purplish grey; hindwing pale silky brown; fringe cream colour. Yokohama, Japan. 



57. Genus: Aimmeta Walk 



Tongue present; frons smooth and flat; palpi obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment well 

 scaled, the third slender, porrect ; antennae of <J shortly ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; fore- 

 tibiae with spines and terminal claws; mid and hindtibiae with tufts of long spinose hair at middle and end; 

 forewing with costa and inner margin nearly straight ; apex blunt; termen obliquely curved ; hindwing whitish, 

 with a black blotch across veins 2 to 4 before termen. Type A. atrosignata Walk, from N. W. India. A genus 

 of desert insects found in Central Asia, Arabia, and N. Africa, in the Old World. 



A. atrosignata Walk. (70 c). Forewing luteous grey or whitish, flushed with brownish fuscous; inner, alrosignata. 

 outer, and subterrninal lines dark with sbght pale edges, obliquely curved outwards from costa, then oblique 

 inwards, parallel to termen; a row of dark terminal dots; hindwing white, flushed with pale brownish grey, 

 leaving a central curved whitish band, and a whitish space before termen containing a black blotch along 

 termen from vein 2 to 4; a dark terminal line; fringe whitish; the $ is larger and darker. In this form, 



