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and sending teeth inwards on veins 2 and 1; an indistinct pale 
crenulate submarginal line. Hind wing with antemedial line 
produced to an angle at lower end of cell; the postmedial line 
angled at vein 4, then dentate to inner margin ; a crenulate grey 
submarginal line. 
Hab. Dharmséla (Hocking). Exp. 30 millim. Type in B. M. 
Genus POMASIA. 
Pomasia, Guen. Phal. i, p. 427 (1857). 
Leiocera, Hmpsn. Jil. Het. ix, p. 152 (1892). 
Type, P. psylarva, Guen. 
Range. Khasis; Nagas; Ceylon; Mergui; Borneo. 
Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint reaching beyond the short sharp 
frontal tuft, the 3rd long and naked ; antenne of male minutely 
ciliated ; hind tibize with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 stalked, 
10 anastomosing with 8, 9 to form the areole. Hind wing with 
vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from middle of discocellulars, 
which are angled, 6, 7 stalked. 
/ 3745, Pomasia psylaria, Gwen. Phal. i, p- 428; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
pl. 200, fig. 2; C.§ S. no. 4005. 5 
Bright rufous; head, thorax, and abdomen banded with greyish 
white. Fore wing with the 
costa orange, with black patches 
and strige ; a grey fascia below 
the costa; a basal grey spot; 
~ six irregularly waved grey lines 
outlined in black; the veins 
streaked with grey and black ; 
outer margin orange, with black 
patches at veins 2and4. Hind 
wing with a basal grey spot ; 
five waved grey lines outlined in black ; the outer margin orange, 
with a black patch at vein4. Underside suffused with pale fuscous. 
Hab. Ceylon. Exp., 5 28, 2 32 millim. 
Fig. 183. 
Pomasia psylaria, 3. }. 
3746. Pomasia reticulata, n. sp. 
Q. Bright orange; head, thorax, and abdomen spotted with 
black. Fore wing with double subbasal, antemedial, medial, post- 
medial, and submarginal waved dark lines connected in many 
places by irregular, rectangular, or stellate blotches; a dentate 
line just inside the margin and two spots on the margin. Hind 
wing with antemedial, medial, postmedial, and submarginal double 
waved lines with a few blotches on them ; a dentate line close to 
the margin and two spots on the margin. 
Hab. Mergui (Doherty). Eap. 24 millim. Type in coll. Druce 
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