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base of inner area ; a curved black antemedial line ; two 



leaden grey discocellular spots 

 on a pale discal patch ; a black 

 postmedial line outwardly ob- 

 lique from costa to vein 4, 

 then bent inwards and dentate 

 towards inner margin ; a curved 

 submarginal line with some blue- 

 Fig. 227.— Noorda blitealis, $ . \. black scales on it; a black line 



at the base of cilia, which are 



grey at tips. Hind wing hyaline, with broad black marginal band 



narrowing to anal angle ; cilia with the tips pure white. Underside 



white ; fore wing with broad marginal black band. 



Hah. Aden and throughout the plains of India and Ceylon. 



Exp. 24 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with long cilia. 



5184. Noorda fessalis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 459, pi. 41, fig. 13 ; 

 C. 8r S. no. 4183. 

 Autocharis amethystina, Sxvinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 149. 



S . Very pale lemon-colour, almost white ; palpi and shoulders 

 fulvous ; fore legs fulvous ; the tarsi white ; mid tibia? with 

 fulvous stripe above; anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing with the 

 costa fulvous ; two black specks in the cell below costa and one 

 at each angle of cell, any of which may be absent ; the outer area 

 pink, pinkish brown, or blackish, bounded inwardly by a slightly 

 sinuous black line, dentate on vein 3. Hind wing with marginal 

 pink band from apex to vein 2, narrowing and with fuscous 

 suffusion inside it towards apex ; both wings with the cilia fuscous 

 or pale fulvous, white towards anal angle of hind wing. 



$ often slightly ochreous in tone ; fore wing with the specks 

 in cell obsolete ; the black line inside the marginal band straight. 



Hah. W. Africa ; Aden ; Karachi ; Mhow ; Canara ; Bhutan ; 

 Khasis ; Nagas ; Margharita, Assam ; Manipur ; Shan States ; 

 Andamans. Exp. 16-18 millim. 



Genus DAUSARA. 

 Dausara, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 507 (1859). 



Type, D. talliusalis, Wlk. 



Range. N.E. India ; Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo. 



Palpi porrect, rather long, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint 

 hidden by hair ; maxillary palpi with a long sharp tuft from 

 extremity ; frons flattened and oblique ; antennae of male much 

 thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the outer spurs about two- 

 thirds length of inner. Fore wing with the inner margin lobed 

 at middle ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 curved and 

 closely approximated for one-third length to 8, 9, to which 10 also 



