230 PYKALIDJS. 



veins 2 and 4. Hind wing with indistinct cell-speck and slightly 

 sinuous postmedial line ; underside suffused with grey. 

 Hob. Japan ; Khasis ; Shan States. Exp. 22-26 ruilliin. 



4723. Luma obscuralis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 300. 



Fuscous brown ; head brownish ochreous ; palpi black at sides ; 

 fore legs ochreous marked w T ith fuscous ; anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing with obscure postmedial line arising from a blackish spot on 

 costa and very much excurved between veins 8 and 2. Hind win°- 

 somewhat paler in parts ; an obscure diffused postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 6 and 2. Underside paler, with discocellular 

 lunule ; the postmedial line reduced to specks. 



Hah. Khasis. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus ORPHNOPHANES. 



Orphnophanes, Led. Wien. ent. Man. 1863, p. 428. 

 Syntomodora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 467. 



Type, 0. eucerasalis, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Amboina. 



Differs from Luma in the 2nd joint of palpi being shorter, 

 hardly reaching vertex of head, and broadly rounded with scales in 

 front ; the frons rounded ; antennae ciliated. 



Sect. T. Fore wing with the apex not produced ; hind wing 

 with the outer margin nearly straight. 



A. (Syntomodora). Hind wing with the inner margin normal. 



4724. Orphnophanes thoasalis, Wlk. Cat. x-viii, p. 692 ;C.$S. no. 4078. 



3 . Differs from Luma sericea in the palpi being banded black and 

 white. Fore wing with the antemedial line straighter and more 

 prominent ; the discocellular mark quadrate, white, and with a 

 black line on inner and outer sides ; the postmedial line with 

 Avhitish patch beyond it on costa, retracted on vein 2 to below 

 angle of cell, then waved. Hind wing with discocellular speck, 

 the postmedial line sinuous and retracted on vein 2 to below angle 

 of cell. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Andamans : Borneo. Exp. 20 millim. 



4725. Orphnophanes lsevalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 206. 



S . Fuscous brown ; head and extremity of abdomen with a 

 fulvous tinge. Fore wing with indistinct antemedial black line ; 

 two discocellular black specks ; an almost straight prominent 

 black postmedial line with another ill-defined line beyond it. Hind 

 wing with waved black medial and postmedial lines, the latter 

 joined at vein 2 by a line from near apex, diffused towards costa, 

 and ending at anal angle ; both wings with fine marginal line and 

 line through the cilia. 



Hah. Khasis. Eocp. 14 millim. 



