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markings obscured ; fore wing with the fulvous yellow postmedial 

 band interrupted, bent inwards to costa round the discocellular 

 mark which is lunulate ; traces of a curved submarginal line 

 sometimes developed into a black-edged fulvous baud. Hind wing 

 wdth two obscure oblique waved postmedial fuscous lines, which 

 may be developed into black-edged fulvous bands ; both wings with 

 hardly a trace of the marginal fulvous band, and with a series of 

 black specks at base of cilia. 



Hah. Chekiang, China; Ceylon; Java; Celebes; Auscraha. 

 Eccp. 22 milliin. 



4637. Nymphula affmialis, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 270 ; C. $■ #, 



no. 4396. 

 ? Botys ardealis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 134, fig. 31 ; C. #. S. no. 4045. 

 Oligostigma incomrnoda, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 180 ; C. fy S r 



no. 4411. 



"White, more or less suffused with yellowish brown and irrorated 

 with black ; abdomen with fuscous band. Fore wing with very 

 ill-defined oblique yellow antemedial and medial bands ; an 

 incomplete black discocellular annulus ; a better defined yellow 

 postmedial band excurved from costa to vein 3, then retracted to 

 origin of vein 2 ; a diffused fuscous band on outer area ; a black 

 submarginal line and yellow marginal band. Hind wing white 

 with black discocellular speck ; a diffused fuscous postmedial band 

 traversed by an indistinct white line ; a black submarginal line 

 and yellow marginal band. 



Hah. Socotra ; Simla; Sikhim ; Karachi; Mbow; Poona ; 

 Bombay ; Nicobars. Exp. 20 millim. 



4638. Nymphula diminutalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 242, & 



xxvii, p. 48, pi. 5, fig. 1. 



Differs from affinialis in the postmedial yellow band of fore wino- 

 being incurved to costa nearer the black annulus ; a sinuous 

 submarginal yellow band, its outer edge indented above middle, its 

 inner edge dentate on vein 2. Hind wing with antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; a postmedial line curved from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique ; a sinuous yellow subrnar°inal 

 band, its outer edge indented below costa. 



Hah. China ; Punjab ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; Java ; Celebes. 

 Exp. 12-16 millim. 



4639. Nymphula fiuctuosalis, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852 ; p. 27. 

 Paraponyx linealis, Guen. Belt. Sf Pyr. p. 271 ; C. 8f S. no. 4399. 

 Oligostigma chrysippusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 432. 

 Oligostigma obitalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 432. 



Parapoynx aptalis, Led. Wein. ent. Mon. 1863, pp. 452, 485. 

 Oligostigma curta, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 270. 

 ? Paraponyx oryzalis/ Wood-Mason, Rice Pest of Burma, Calcutta, 

 1885; C.$S. no. 4400. 



Head and thorax white, irrorated with black ; abdomen white 



TOL. IT. 



