FALANA. — OXYGONITIS. 415 



costal and apical areas purplish, speckled with white ; the post- 

 medial line developed on costal area ; the subapical black spot 

 prominent : hind wing purplish, irrorated with white ; a pale and 



Fig. 230. — Falana sordida, rf . {. 



dark line from costa irregularly bent out to beyond cell and curved 

 to inner margin ; a whitish line on discocellulars ; a submarginal 

 line formed of black blotches. 



Hab. Sikhim; Khasis ; Ceylon; Tenasserim. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus OXYGONITIS. 



Oxygonitis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 103 (1893). 



Type, 0. sericeata, Hmpsn. 



Range. Nagas ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 minute ; antennae minutely fasciculated in male ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing produced and acute at apex ; 

 the outer margin excised to vein 4, where it is produced to a hook. 

 Hind wing with the anal angle truncate ; veins 3, 4 from cell in 

 male, slightly stalked in female ; 5 from below centre of disco- 

 cellulars. 



2315. Oxygonitis sericeata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 103, pi. 163, 

 fig. 1. 



S . Purplish fuscous. Fore wing with antemedial oblique line 

 waved below costa : the orbicular round and white : the reniform 



Fig. 231. — Oxygonitis sericeata, J. \. 



very large and dark ; a postmedial brown line curved below costa, 

 then nearly straight to inner margin, with some diffused brown 

 beyond it ; a series of submarginal white specks ; cilia whitish at 



