MECISTOPTERA.—RHASENA. 103 
traces of a dentate line beyond it. Hind wing paler, with dark 
speck at end of cell; indistinct postmedial line and marginal dark 
line. 
Hab. Manipur (Doherty). Hap. 26 millim. Type i in coll. Elwes. 
Sect. II. Fore wing with the outer margin angled at vein 3 
and crenulate. 
3014. Mecistoptera velifera, Swink. P. Z S. 1885, p. 4738, pl. 28, 
Hees) Cig is. no. 2962. 
Q. Head and collar ochreous; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. 
Fore wing ochreous brown suffused with fuscous, especially on 
inner area; a pale spot at end of cell; a lunulate marginal brown 
band with ochreous spot inside it above outer angle. Hind wing 
pale fuscous. 
Hab. Bhutan; Poona. Exp. 26 millim. 
Sect. III. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly 
angled at middle. 
3015. Mecistoptera variegata, n. s 
Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown, 
variegated with rufous, purple, and ochreous shades ; a dark streak 
on median nervure; a’white speck in cell and black speck at end 
of it ; traces of an antemedial line with two angles in the cell; a 
postmedial line angled beyond the cell and with purplish suffusion 
beyond it; an indistinct submarginal sinuous maculate line; the 
veins beyond the cell dark-streaked; a marginal dark line. Hind 
wing pale with marginal dark line; underside with indistinct cell- 
spot and postmedial line. 
Hab. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 32 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 
Genus RH ASENA. 
eee WIk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1973 (1866). 
Type, &. transcissa, W1k. 
Range. §. Africa; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; 
Borneo; Australia. 
Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint thickly scaled, the 3rd of moderate 
length ; antenne with long bristles and fasciculated cilia in male ; 
abdomen long, with dorsal tuft on 1st segment; the tibie slightly 
clothed with scales. Fore wing long and narrow; the costa 
arched towards apex, which is acute; the areole short, with vein 7 
given off beyond it; males with a vesicle at upper angle of cell on 
underside covered by a valve of scales. Hind wing with vein 5 
from below middle of discocellulars. 
3016. Rhesena transcissa, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1974. 
Rheesena obliquifasciata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 183; C& &. 
no. 2728. 
Head and collar fiery red; thorax purplish grey; abdomen 
