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and middle. Hind wing with the apical area diffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 20 inillim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 4, 5 shortly stalked. 



4755. Scoparia olivaris, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 131, pi. 154, fig. 11. 



2 . Head golden olive and black ; thorax black and grey. Fore 

 wing grey, thickly irrorated with black and more slightly with 

 golden olive ; the veins broadly streaked with golden olive, espe- 

 cially beyond the cell ; a pale antemedial line prominently angled 

 on median nervure and slightly on vein 1 ; diffused black patches 

 in and below middle of cell and in end of cell ; a postmedial pale 

 line, angled inwards on vein 6, highly excurved to vein 2, retracted 

 to below end of cell, and angled outwards again on vein 1 ; a 

 dentate white submarginal line. Hind wing pale, slightly suffused 

 with fuscous and yellow towards margin ; cilia of both wings 

 yellowish, with a fuscous line through them. 

 Hob. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 20 millim. 



4756. Scoparia delicatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1500; C. § S. no. 4533. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with black 

 and fuscous and more slightly with brown. Fore wing with a 

 black streak below base of median nervure ; an ill-defined pale 

 curved antemedial line with diffused black on its outer edge ; a 

 black speck at middle of cell, and black spots on rufous patches 

 below middle and on discocellulars ; a pale dentate postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 6 and 3, and with diffused fuscous brown 

 beyond it ; ill-defined grey submarginal marks and a series of dark 

 specks on margin and cilia. Hind wing pale ; the apex and margin 

 very slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Nilgiris. Exp. 18 millim. 



4757. Scoparia rufostigma, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 131, pi. 154, fig. 4. 



Differs from delicatalis in the antemedial line of fore wing being 

 prominently white, angled outwards in cell and inwards below it ; 

 the medial area black, with diffused grey in, below, and beyond end 

 of cell ; the black discocellular spot and rufous patch large and 

 prominent ; the patch below cell absent ; the postmedial dentate 

 white line bent outwards to near margin between veins 3 and 1 ; 

 an apical pale patch with black speck on it. Hind wing winter. 



Hah. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 20 millim. 



4758. Scoparia mediorufalis, n. sp. 



Grey, irrorated with black and suffused with yellow. Fore 

 wing with the base rufous, followed by a grey band ; the dark 

 oblique antemedial line excurved in and below cell; the whole 

 medial area suffused with rufous ; rufous and black spots in and 



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