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apical area much suffused with fulvous ; the ante- and postmedial 

 double lines more oblique, reaching the inner margin nearer the 

 anal angle, and not obsolete but widely separated on costal half of 

 wing ; no black specks on the margin aud hardly a trace of white. 

 Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



Genus PLEONECTOIDES. 



Pleonectoides, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 134 (1891). 



Type, P. vinacea, Hmpsn. 



Range. Assam ; Nilgiris ; Sumbawa. 



Palpi porrect and rostriform, projecting about twice the length 

 of head, the 2nd joint thickly clothed with hair concealing the 3rd ; 

 maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons oblique ; antenna? 

 annulated with rings at the joints ; legs long and slender ; the 

 outer spurs about half the length of inner ; abdomen with lateral 

 tufts towards extremity. Pore wing long and narrow; vein 3 

 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 on a long stalk ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7,8, 9, 10 stalked, and 11 closely approximated to them. 

 Hind wing narrow ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 on a long 

 stalk ; the cell short ; 6, 7 stalked. 



4509. Pleonectoides vinacea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 134, pi. 155, 



fig. 19. 



S • Pale rufous suffused with purplish fuscous ; palpi white 

 below ; frons white at sides ; abdomen fuscous towards extremity, 



the anal tuft white. Fore wing 

 with the basal two-thirds of 

 costa dark, the apical third ful- 

 vous; curved ante- and post- 

 medial lines, the latter slightly 

 angled inwards on vein 2. 

 ^F^TgO. Hind wing with the costal 



Pleonectoides vinacea, J. \. ant f inner areas whitish; an 



obliquely curved postmedial 

 line, becoming obsolescent towards anal angle ; cilia of both wings 

 whitish. Underside of hind wing white, with the] postmedial line 

 dark. 



Hah. Nilgiris. Exp. 20 millim. 



4510. Pleonectoides sericialis, n. sp. 



$ . Pale silky purplish grey ; a minutely waved indistinct 

 submarginal line, slightly excurved between veins 6 and 2 of fore 

 wing, straight on hind wing, and terminating on outer margin at 

 vein 2 ; a marginal series of dark specks, terminating at vein 2 of 

 hind wing. 



Hah. Margharita, Assam ; Sumbawa (Doherty). Exp. 16 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



