290 NOCTULD.E. 



Fore wing with a patch on the costa before the apex which is 

 prominent and black in the Chinese and Sikhim form, indistinct 

 and brownish in stigmata from the Nilgiris ; traces of post- 

 medial and submarginal lines ; a few submarginal black scales 

 towards the apex ; some specimens have three black specks on the 

 costa. 



Hab. N.China; Sikhim; Nilgiris. Exp. 30 millim. 



Sect. III. Tore wing narrower and more produced at apex. 



1961. Leocyma maculata, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax brownish white ; palpi black at sides ; 

 abdomen fuscous except at base. Fore wing brownish white ; 

 indistinct double ante- and postmedial and single medial waved 

 lines ; the orbicular a fawn-coloured speck with white outline ; a 

 large fawn-coloured, somewhat irregular patch with white outline 

 in and beyond the end of cell ; a black speck at apex, another 

 subapical and a marginal series increasing in size towards outer 

 angle. Hind wing semihy aline white ; the inner area clothed with 

 fuscous hair ; traces of a cell-spot and postmedial line ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. 



Hab. E. Pegu, 5000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 32 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus APSARASA. 

 Apsarasa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 665. 



Type, A. radians, Westw. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam ; Andamans. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; 

 palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the second joint smoothly 

 scaled and thickened ; antennae simple ; thorax and abdomen 

 without tufts ; tibiae without spines. Fore wing with the cilia not 

 crenulate, the apex rounded, the inner margin lobed and forming 

 with the outer margin an almost continuous curve. 



1962. Apsarasa radians, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 58, pi. 28, fig. 4. 

 Apsarasa figurata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 604 ; C. $ 8. no. 1781. 



d . Head and thorax blue-black ; 



a pale yellow patch on vertex 



of head and five yellow bars on 



the thorax ; abdomen black, with 



yellow dorsal specks on the 



proximal segments, the anal tuft 



yellow. Fore wing blue-black, 



with pale yellow subtriangular 



Fig. 159. patches set all round the costal, 



Apsarasa radians, 3 . \. outer, and inner margins ; some 



small yellow spots in the cell and blue-grey spots beyond it. Hind 



