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Genus MICARDIA. 

 Micardia, Butt. A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 81 (1878). 



Type, M. argentata, Butl., from Japan. 



Range. Japan ; Sikhim. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, and smoothly scaled ; 

 antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen thout 

 tufts. Fore wing somewhat acute at apex, the outer margin 

 oblique; vein 8 anastomosing with 9 to form the areole. Hind 

 wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked. 



2014. Micardia pulcherrima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 48, pi. vi, fig. 7 ; 

 C. 8f 8. no. 1689. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, 

 the costal and inner areas suffused with pink, the medial area with 



fuscous as far as the oblique streak ; 

 a black antemedial speck above vein 1 ; 

 a very prominent silvery-white streak 

 on median nervure ; the oblique streak 

 from apex prominent and edged with 

 white ; a similar streak from centre 

 of outer margin ; some pink and white 

 on vein 2. Hind wing pale, with a 

 faint cell-spot and oblique postmedial 

 line ; some black on inner margin 

 towards anal angle. 

 Exp. 33 millim. 



Fig. 168. 

 Micardia 'pulcherrima, $ . 



Hah. Sikhim. 



Genus MEGALODES. 

 Megalodes, Guen. Nod. ii, p. 261 (1852). 



Type, M. eximia, Herr.-Schaff., from Asia Minor. 



Range. Asia Minor ; Kashmir ; Indian Peninsula. 



Palpi obliquely upturned ; frons with a trilobate corneous pro- 

 cess ; antennae simple; thorax and abdomen without tufts. Fore 

 wing with the cilia not crenulate ; vein 8 given off from 7 and 

 anastomosing with 9 to form the areole. 



2015. Megalodes kashmirensis, n. sp. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen yel- 

 lowish white. Fore wing yellowish 

 grey ; a narrow curved antemedial white 

 band ; the orbicular and reniform indis- 

 tinct ; an oblique nearly straight post- 

 medial and curved narrow submarginal 

 white band : an indistinct marginal cre- 

 nulate white line. Hind wing fuscous, 

 the cilia whitish. 

 Hob. Gulmurg, Kashmir (Johnstone). Exp. 28 millim. Type 



in coll. Elwes. 



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Fig. 169.— Megalodes kash- 

 mirensis, rf. }. 



