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interspace; a marginal band, wide in male, narrow in female. 

 Hind wing yellow ; the apical portion of outer margin fuscous. 



Hob. Simla, Nepal ; Sikhim ; Khasi Hills ; Sibsagar ; Naga 

 Hills ; Borneo. Exp., <$ 50, $ 58 millim. 



Genus (EONISTIS. 

 (Eonistis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 165 (1818). 



Type, (E. quadra, Linn. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; Sikhim. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae ciliated in 

 both sexes. Fore wing long and narrow; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell, or 3, 4 on a short stalk ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 9 rising from 10 and anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form the 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6 

 stalked with 7 in female, absent in male ; 8 from before middle of 

 cell. 



1326. (Eonistis quadra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 840. 



<$ . Palpi orange, the third joint black. Head black, the vertex 

 orange ; thorax orange, with a black spot on shoulders ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the anal tuft fuscous ; a broad fuscous marginal band. 

 Hind wing pale yellow, the costal area whitish fuscous. 



5 . Uniform orange-yellow ; abdomen and hind wing paler ; 

 fore wing with a postmedial blue- black spot on costa and another 

 on vein 2 ; cilia at apex black. 



Fig. 40. — (Eonistis quadra, § . \. 



The Japan form dives, But!., has a narrower fuscous margin to fore 

 wing in male, the female being indistinguishable. 



The single female from Sikhim has vein 5 of the fore wing 

 absent; if this is found to be constant it will have to be trans- 

 ferred to the genus Lithosia, being possibly the female of L. colon, 

 Moschl., and (E. quadra removed from the Indian list. 



Hab. Europe ; Sikhim. Exp., $ 46, $ 48 millim. 



Genus CHRYSORABDIA. 



Chrysorabdia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357. 



Type, C. viridata, Wlk. 



Range. Himalayas ; Assam ; Burma. 



