DREPANTTLID^. 477 



a postmedial black spot on costa ; an oblique fine waved line from 



apex to inner margin 

 beyond middle, with a 

 black subapical mark on 

 it ; the marginal area 

 browner, with indistinct 

 submarginal and marginal 

 brown lines. Hind wing 

 with traces of oblique 

 subbasal line ; a postme- 

 Fig. 253.— Problepsidis albidescens, $ . \. dial black band obsolescent 



towards costa ; a diffused 

 submarginal line and fine marginal line. Underside with the 

 costal half of fore wing suffused with fuscous ; both wings with 

 the veins brown; a broad blackish postmedial band and waved 

 submarginal line sinuous towards costa of fore wing. 

 Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 42 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 6 from upper angle of 

 cell, 10 from end of areole. 



741 c. Problepsidis cupreogrisea, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, 

 p. 288. 



5 . Leaden grey with a slight coppery tinge. Fore wing with 

 a dark ferruginous basal patch in and below cell, extending along 

 median nervure to the angle of cell ; two minute white specks on 

 discocellulars ; the apex orange, with a black spot on it ; an 

 oblique line from below apex to middle of inner margin ; a dark 

 ferruginous marginal band traversed by a fine white curved sub- 

 marginal line and fine orange marginal line. Hind wing with 

 medial and marginal broad ferruginous bands, the latter traversed 

 by fine pale submarginal and marginal lines. 



Hob. Tenasserim. Exp. 25 millim. 



Genus STREPTOPERAS. 



Streptoperas, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 289. 



Type, S. luteatum, Hmpsn. 



Range. Bengal. 



Palpi slender, upturned, and hardly reaching vertex of head ; 

 proboscis present ; antennae of female thickened and flattened ; 

 frenulum present. Fore wing with the apex produced, recurved, 

 and lying against outer margin ; vein 3 from before angle of cell : 

 6 from above middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9 stalked and anas- 

 tomosing with 10, which is given off from 11 to form the areole. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin straight from apex to vein 3, 

 where it is produced to a point, then excised to anal angle ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell. 



