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waved and nearly erect to inner margin. Hind wing with traces 

 of subrnarginal line. 



Some specimens have the fore wing strongly suffused with 

 leaden-grey before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial 

 lines. 



Hab. Punjab ; Khasis ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly indented at 



vein 6. 



4197. Platytes argentisparsalis, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 948. 



5 . Differs from plurnbenlinealis in being more fuscous and pro- 

 minently irrorated with black scales. Pore wing with brilliant 

 silver line from base of costa to median nervure near angle of cell, 

 then erect to inner margin, with a black spot inside it below cell ; 

 a curved silver fascia on subcostal nervure at end of cell and a 

 spot at lower angle ; the silvery subrnarginal liae more excurved 

 below costa and nearer the margin ; the marginal specks more 

 prominent and on a grey band. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



Sect. HI. (Ptychopseastis). Pore wing with the outer margin 

 slightly indented at veins 6 and 2. 



4198. Platytes amoenella, Snell. Tijd. v.Ent. 1880, p. 247, and 1884, 



pi. v, fig. 9. 



$ • Grey-brown. Pore wing with sinuous fuscous antemedial 

 line with ochreous spot on its outer edge below median nervure ; 

 an ochreous discocellular speck ; a fuscous postmedial line defined 

 by ochreous, oblique from costa to vein 6, then sinuous ; a series 

 of dark specks just inside the margin ; a dark line at base and 

 through middle of cilia. Hind wing paler, with diffused fuscous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Shan States; Celebes; New Guinea. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus EROMENE. 



Erornene, Huhn. Verz. p. 366 (? 1818). 



Euchrornius, Guen. Eur. Microlep. hid. Meth. p. 86 (1845), prseocc. 



Type, E. bella, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Eeartic and Palaearetic regions ; 1NT.W. India. 



Palpi porrect, extending about twice the length of head and 

 thickly scaled ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; frons produced 

 to a conical process ; antennae of male thickened and flattened ; 

 tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner. 

 Pore wing with the apex usually rounded ; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 well separated from 

 8, 9 ; 10 free; 11 oblique, not approximated to 12 ; male with a 



