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usually leaviDg patches of ochreous on apical area and below 

 middle ; a marginal series of specks. Hind wing with discocellular 

 spot ; a postmedial line highly bent outwards and minutely dentate 

 between veins 5 and 2, then continued to anal angle as two 

 diffused bands ; the apical area suffused with purplish fuscous ; a 

 more or less complete marginal series of specks. 



Plagiatalis, which is probably the dry-season form, is smaller 

 with all the dark markings reduced ; fore wing with the bent-out 

 portion of the postmedial line reduced to specks and small dark 

 marks beyond it below apex and above inner margin. 



Hob. Formosa ; Sikhim ; Assam ; Karachi ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Amboina ; Sumbawa ; Timor Laut ; 

 Australia. Exp. : plagiatalis, 24 ; iopasalis, 26-36 millim. 



4972. Sylepta mysisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 634. 

 Gadessa impuralis, Warr. A. M. N. IT. (6) xviii, p. 167. 



Pale ochreous. Pore wing with oblique sinuous antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a spot in cell and discocellular lunule ; the post- 

 medial line excurved between veins 5 and 3, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and sinuous to inner margin ; a marginal 

 fuscous band narrowing to outer angle. Hind wing with disco- 

 cellular spot ; the postmedial line highly bent outwards between 

 veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal fuscous band slightly widest at apex. 



Hah. W. Africa ; Khasis ; Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



4973. Sylepta venustalis, Swinh. A.M.N. H. (6) xiv, p. 199. 



S • Differs from aurantiacalis in being orange. Pore wing with 

 the spot in cell, the ante- and postmedial lines, hind wing with 

 the discocellular spot and postmedial line, stronger and blacker ; no 

 fuscous on outer area except at apex of hind wing ; a series of 

 marginal fuscous specks and the cilia fuscous. 



Hah. Khasis. Exp. 40 millim. 



4974. Sylepta nigriflava, Stvinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 199. 



3 . Differs from aurantiacalis in being orange. Pore wing 

 with no spot in cell ; the discocellular spot of both wings, the 

 antemedial line of fore wing, and postmedial line of both wings 

 blacker ; the outer area and margin unmarked. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 30 millim. 



4975. Sylepta dissipatalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 474, pi. 11, 



fig. 13. 

 Samea quinquigera, Moore, Lep. A ik. p. 207, pi. 7, fig. 14 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 4249. 



Puscous brown with a cupreous tinge ; the collar and basal 

 segment of abdomen whitish ; some white before the anal tuft. 

 Pore wing with curved antemedial line; a diffused yellowish- 

 white patch inside it below the cell ; a quadrate spot in end of 

 cell ; the postmedial line slightly bent outwards between veins 5 

 and 2, then retracted to near the angle of cell, a large yellowish- 



