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nervure ; an indistinct highly angled antemedial line, double from 
costa to lower angle of cell; a black spot at upper angle of cell ; 
the outer area suffused with brown; traces of a postmedial waved 
Ime and submarginal sinuous series of specks; a fine marginal 
white line. Hind wing fuscous brown. 
Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 24 millim. 
2777. Raparna imparata, Wik. Cat. xv, p.1777; C. § S. no. 2191. 
Homoptera diminutiva, Wik. Cat. xxxiil, p. 890. 
Magulaba meestalis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1127; C. § S. no. 2738 a. 
Fenasia erebina, Butl. A. MZ. N. H. (6) iv, p. 460. 
Hingula albolunata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 181; C.§ &. no. 2707. 
Hingula cervina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 181; C. & S. no. 2708. 
Hingula figurata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 199, pl. 174, fig. 10; 
C. §& S. no. 2709. 
Dark fuscous brown with a greyish tinge; the head and collar 
dark red-brown. Fore wing with some dark specks on costa; 
waved ante- and postmedial lines, the latter excurved round cell ; 
the orbicular and reniform large and indistinct and more or less 
prominently defined by hyaline lines; a dark spot at apex; a 
marginal series of black specks. Hind wing with a cell-spot with 
hyaline specks on its edges; a sinuous medial line with dark 
specks on it; traces of a pale submarginal lunulate line; an 
indistinct lunulate red-brown marginal band. 
Some specimens have a dark patch on disk of fore wing; others 
have the black-speckled medial line of hind wing double towards 
inner margin. 
Hab. W. Africa; Japan; throughout India and Ceylon. wp. 
18—24 millim. / 
2778. Raparna nigriceps, n. sp. 
Reddish grey-brown; the head and collar black; the wings 
with numerous dark striz. Fore wing with traces of subbasal 
and antemedial sinuous lines ; a minute white speck at lower angle 
of cell; a rufous postmedial line excurved beyond cell and with 
fuscous suffusion inside it; the costal area below apex and the 
area near outer angle suffused with fuscous ; some pale specks on 
costa towards apex; a short dark line from apex. Hind wing 
with rufous medial band ; a white speck at end of cell; the outer 
area suffused with fuscous. 
A Poona specimen has no red suffusion on the postmedial line 
of either wing; one from Bombay has all the veins prominently 
pale, the postmedial line without any dark area inside it, but 
with prominent black spots on its inner edge on hind wing. 
Hab. Simla (Harford); Poona; Bombay (Swinhoe). Hap. 28 
millim. Type in B. M. 
2779. Raparna tantilla, Swink. P. Z. 8.1885, p.470; C. § S. no. 2751. 
Hingula unicoloris, Swink. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 452; C.§ 8. no. 2711. 
Fuscous brown with a slight grey tinge.. Fore wing with single 
