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Genus ELPHOS. ~~ 
Elphos, Guen. Phal. i. p. 285 (1857). 
Type, £. hymenarna, Guen. 
Range. Japan; Himalayas; Assam; Sylhet; Ceylon; Burma. 
Palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with long hair in front ; 
antenne of male bipectinated with long branches to three-fourths 
length ; hind tibize dilated; wings very broad, the outer margin 
crenulate. Fore wing of male with fovea; vein 3 from before end 
of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before upper angle; 11 free. Hind 
wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 
Secr. I. Fore wing with vein 10 given off from 7, 8, 9. 
3362. Elphos hymenaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 285, pl. 16, fig. 4; Moore, 
Lep. Ceyl. iii, pl. 198, fig. 1; C. $ 8. no. 3898. / 
Elphos procellosa, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 431. 
¢$. Purplish fuscous, irrorated with black and with some fulvous 
markings, especially near the lines. Fore wing with waved ante- 
medial line; an obscure, nearly straight medial line, becoming 
antemedial on hind wing; a diffused fulvous patch beyond cell; 
Fig. 1382.—Elphos hymenaria, 3. }. 
both wings with highly waved postmedial and submarginal lines. 
Underside fuscous, with spot at end of cell ; a white patch beyond 
cell of fore wing ; a broad black marginal band, with white patches 
on the margin. 
2 with the ground-colour white except on apical area of fore 
wing, the purplish-fuscous and fulvous markings appearing as spots 
and blotches. 
Hab. Himalayas ; Assam; Ceylon; Burma. Ewp., d 84, 9104 
millim. 
