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$. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous and fuscous black. 
Fore wing with a large dark-speckled rufous patch at base and 
conjoined patches on outer area, smallest towards costa, largest 
towards inner margin. Hind wing with a similar patch on inner 
half of outer area; both wings with a dark speck at end of cell and 
the cilia intersected with rufous. Underside fuscous, with some 
rufous on costa of fore wing beyond middle. 
Q. The wings broader; fore wing with no fulvous at base; 
hind wing with an indistinct waved postmedial line. 
The rufous markings are often almost obsolete. 
Hab. Sikhim; Khasis; Margharita, Assam. Ezp., ¢ 35-38, 
Q 50 millim. 
ee Boarmia fimbriata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 628; 0. ¢ S. 
no, 3297. 
3. Differs from Diane in being chiefly rufous, the black 
suffusion being confined on the fore wing to the costal area from 
the base to the postmedial line, and on the hind wing to between 
the antemedial and medial lines. Fore wing with oblique ante- 
medial, crenulate oblique postmedial, and traces of submarginal 
lines ; a spot at end of cell, dark patch on margin below apex, and 
marginal series of black specks. Hind wing with speck at end of 
cell; antemedial and crenulate medial lines, the latter with grey 
on its outer edge; traces of submarginal line, with some grey 
marks on it below apex ; marginal series of specks. 
Hab. Sikhim; Nagas. Hap. 40 millim. 
Group II. Male with no fovea at base of fore wing. 
Sror. I. Hind wing with vein 5 absent. 
Js (Hemerophila). Male with the antenne: bipectinated, the branches 
decumbent ; hind tibse usually dilated with a fold and tuft of hair. 
a. Male with no secondary sexual patch to hind wing. 
— a’. Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell. 
/ 3438. Boarmia subplagiata, Wk. Cat. xxi, p. 319; C&S. no. 3284. J 
Hemerophila retractaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 627; C.§ 8. 
no. 3283. 
Hemerophila senilis, But?. Ill. Het. ii, p. 48, pl. 35, fig. 12. 
Hemerophila jugorum, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 126, fig. a Cn Sas 
no. 3280. 
Menophra torridaria, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 237, pl. 8, fig. 27; 
C. & S. no. 3274, 
Hemerophila lignata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 680. 
Ochreous grey-brown, rufous, or fuscous brown, with dark 
irroration and striz; collar often fringed with black, and the 
thorax hoary. Fore wing with antemedial black line, angled on 
subcostal and median nervures, then oblique and slightly sinuous 
to inner margin; a speck beyond it at end of cell; a postmedial 
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