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black-edged lunule at lower angle of cell. Hind wing blue-black, 

 with the apical area orange, narrowing to vein 2 ; the cilia dark. 

 Hah. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 140 millim. 



Genus PHYLLODES. 

 Phyllodes, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 246 (1832). 



Type, P. conspicillator, Cram., from Amboina. 



Range. N.E. India ; Burma ; Andamans ; Malayan region ; 

 Philippines ; New G-uinea and neighbouring groups of islands. 



Differs from Miniodes in the tibiae being heavily spined ; antennae 

 thickened and simple ; the fore wing narrower ; the inner and 

 outer margins quite evenly curved. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint minute ; fore wing with the 

 apex produced to a long blunt projection. 



2634. Phyllodes ustulata, Westw. Cab. Or. Eat. p. 57, pi. 28, fig. 1 ; 



C. # S. no. 2490. 

 Phyllodes despicillator, Guen. Noct. m, p. 122. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous ; the palpi chestnut. Pore 

 wing golden brown ; the inner area fuscous ; the basal costal area 

 chestnut striated with rufous ; a large rufous lunule with dark 

 edges at end of cell ; a rufous patch beyond the cell and spot below 

 vein 2 ; fuscous fasciae on and below costa towards apex ; striae of 

 raised scales on the veins below the cell and in interno-median 

 interspace. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the apical area orange. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Sylhet. Exp. 132 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with very long hair in 

 front, producing a rounded form ; the 3rd long, oblique, and 

 knobbed at extremity ; fore wing with the apex produced to 

 an acute point. 



2635. Phyllodes eyndhovii, Voll Tijd. v. Ent. 1858, ii, p. 86, pi. 6. 

 Phyllodes fasciata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 69 ; C. $ S. no. 2486. 

 Phyllodes semilinea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 176. . 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; the basal joint of antennae 

 silver ; silver spots at base of fore and mid tibiae. Fore wing pale 

 golden olive, with traces of six angulated lines ; the orbicular a 

 black speck ; a sinuous ochreous mark on discocellulars, with double 

 rufous edge ; an oblique dark streak from apex to below the disco- 

 cellular mark. Hind wing brownish fuscous, with broad, irregularly 

 waved, orange medial band with diffused black on each side of it ; 

 underside with a large orange lunule on a black patch below lower 

 angle of cell. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam ; Borneo. Exp. 136 millim. 



