320 is t octuid.i;. 



2051. Xanthoptera magna, Swinh. MS. 



Differs from the form tricycla in the metathorax only being 

 grey. Fore wing greenish yellow, less irrorated with black ; the 

 orbicular and reniform almost or quite obsolete ; the inner and 

 marginal reddish areas more suffused with bluish grey. Hind 

 wing dark fuscous. Underside w^ith indistinct post medial line and 

 pale marginal band to both wings. 



Hab. Sikhim, Khasis. Exp. 40 millim. Type in B. M. 



2052. Xanthoptera nigridia, Swinh. MS. 



S • Differs from magna in the cilia of the fore wing being 

 crenulate ; the head and thorax rufous, suffused with black. Fore 

 wing rufous, with the obicular and reniform more distinct ; the 

 outer area below the oblique line from the apex suffused with 

 black ; the inner area also slightly suffused. Abdomen and hind 

 wing black ; the cilia reddish. Underside with the costa and outer 

 margin of both wings irrorated with red. 



2 • Brownish ochreous, the abdomen reddish. Fore wing 

 without black suffusion; the black spot beyond outer edge of 

 reniform prominent. Hind wing reddish, the outer area suffused 

 with fuscous. Underside much paler; hind wing more suffused 

 with red. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 38 millim. Type in B. M. 



2053. Xanthoptera grisea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 63, pi. 142, fig. 7. 



<$ . Grrey, uniformly irrorated with grey-brown. Fore wing with 

 an angled medial dark line, with rust-red patches before it in and 

 below end of cell ; the outer area slightly suffused with rust-red 

 scales ; a submarginal dark line slightly bent below the costa. 

 Hab. Nilgiris ; Nagas. Exp. 30 millim. 



Sect. II. Female with the antennse strongly ciliated. 



2054. Xanthoptera modesta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 55, pi. 150, 

 fig. 13 ; C.f S. no. 1908. 

 Phillophila grisea, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 100, pi. 162, fig. 10. 



2 . Head and collar clothed with light and dark brown scales ; 

 thorax white, irrorated with a few brown scales ; abdomen pale 

 fuscous. Fore wing whitish, thickly irrorated with brown; a 

 black speck at base ; the reniform dark ; some dark strigae on 

 costa; a prominent series of marginal specks. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous ; underside with cell-spot, minutely crenulate postmedial 

 line, and marginal series of specks. 



The form grisea has the reniform spot obsolete. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



