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beyond them toothed below costa ; outer area with some indistinet 
crenulate lines and a subapical pale speck. Hind wing fuscous 
brown, with a very large bright orange apical patch extending 
down to vein 4 and pale at the costa. Both wings with marginal 
black line. Underside with diffused orange postmedial band on 
fore wing. 
2. Greyer, with the basal half of the fore wing blackish. 
Hab. N.W. and E. Himalayas; Sylhet. Hap. 52 millim. 
731. Photoscotosia obliquisignata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 657; 
C. & S. no. 3828. 
$. Differs from miniosata in being black-brown. Fore wing 
with all the lines pale ; the subbasal line straight and oblique; the 
antemedial line angled on median nervure; a diffused pale brown 
patch from middle of costa to middle of postmedial line, which is 
not toothed below costa, but excurved at middle and with white 
specks on it at veins 2, 3, and 4; the lines beyond it sinuous; an 
oblique pale streak from apex and no subapical spot; a pale sub- 
marginal line. Underside of fore wing with the costal spot joined 
to the apical patch; an ochreous spot at apex. Hind wing with 
an apical fuscous patch and no postmedial line. 
2 with an oblique white patch from costa of fore wing to lower 
angle of cell, instead of the large pale brown patch. Hind wing 
with the costal area fuscous, the apical orange patch being reduced. 
Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 54 millim. 
3732. Photoscotosia nubilata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 274; C. & S. 
no. 3822. 
3S. Dark brown. Fore wing with numerous waved grey lines 
on the basal area; a broad rufous medial band with waved edges; 
some grey suffusion with waved lines on it beyond the band and 
running out to a point below apex; three submarginal white 
specks below apex. Hind wing with the costal area yellowish 
white ; the cilia ochreous at apex. 
A variety has the apical area of hind wing, except the extreme 
apex, dark ; the underside more fuscous. 
Hab. Sikhim. Lap. 48 milli. 
3733. Photoscotosia fulguritis, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 370, pl. 30, 
fie. 11 
Photoscotosia keraria, Swink. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 224. 
6. Black-brown, with a very slight rufous tinge. Fore wing 
with traces of numerous waved black lines; a curved subbasal 
grey line; the medial area defined by whitish waved lines, the 
inner line highly dentate on median nervure, the outer angled on 
vein 4; an indistinct pale submarginal line crossed by an oblique 
white streak from apex. Hind wing fuscous; the costal area 
down to vein 4 whitish ; an indistinct pale waved submarginal line. 
@ with almost the whole hind wing fuscous. 
Hab. Sikhim. ap. 46 millim. 
