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below angle of cell; the margin brown. Hind wing uniform 

 whitish. " 



Hob. Khasis ; Nagas. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus XANTHOMELiENA, nov. 



Type, X. schematias, Meyr. 



Range. Burma ; Malayan subregion to Celebes. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 well developed and acuminate ; maxillary palpi small and filiform ; 

 frons rounded ; antennas of male thickened and flattened; tibiae 

 with the outer spurs half the length of inner ; abdomen long and 

 slender with large protrusible anal tufts. Fore wing long and 

 rather narrow ; the cell short ; vein 2 from angle ; 3 approximated 

 for some distance to 4, 5, which are on a long stalk ; 7 curved and 

 approximated to 8, 9 ; male with a large tuft of scales on underside 

 in end of cell from subcostal nervure met by a slight fringe from 

 median nervure ; female with a small tuft from subcostal nervure. 

 Hind wing with the cell short ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for some distance ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



4770. Xanthomelaena schematias, Meyr. Trans. JEnt. Soe. 1894, p. 458. 



Orange-yellow ; abdomen with paired black spots on 3rd segment. 

 Fore wing w-ith obliquely placed antemedial black spots on costa 



and above inner margin ; a 

 medial black bar from costa to 

 vein 5 ; a postmedial spot above 

 inner margin ; a submarginal 

 spot between veins 3, 4; the 

 interspaces pale and thinly scaled. 

 Hind wing yellowish w r hite, 

 -pi s 153 sometimes with apical black 



Xanthomelmna schematias, S- h s Ppt and submarginal spot on 



vein 3. 

 Hah. Tenasserim ; Pulo Laut; Borneo; Sumbawa; Celebes. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus RHIMPHALEODES. 



Pthimphaleodes, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 174 (1898). 



Type, R. macrostigma, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Differs from RHmphalea in the 2nd joint of palpi being almost 

 smoothly scaled, the 3rd well developed, naked, and acuminate; 

 antennas shorter than fore wing, the shaft smooth, male with the 

 basal joint dilated with tufts of hair from inner side, the shaft 

 excised at base, then fringed with scales on inner side for a short 

 distance ; hind tibiae with a tuft of long scales from extremity, the 

 1st joint of tarsus fringed with long scales on each side at base. 



