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traces of orange bands above and white below; anal tuft blue-black- 

 above, with some orange below in one male, wholly orange in 

 another male, this being the form named jucunda ; in the female 

 black, with the tip orange. Legs black ; the tibiae and tarsi ringed 

 with fulvous and white. Fore wing metallic blue-black, with a 

 purple tinge. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black ; cilia brownish. 



Hab. Rangoon. Exp. 34 millim. 



*357. Sciapteron sikkima, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 9 ; C. fy 8. no. 208. 



c? . Differs from noblei in the antenna? being black above ; the 

 thorax with a chrome-yellow streak on each side. Pore tarsi 

 white ; mid and hind tarsi spotted with white. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



358. Sciapteron metallicum, n. sp. 



Differs from noblei in the thorax being wholly blue-black; abdo- 

 men blue-black, the segments slightly fringed with yellow ; palpi 

 black, with some grey hairs ; thorax greyish below ; tarsi black. 



Hob. Karen Hills (Feci). Exp. 32 millim. Type in coll. Moore. 



359. Sciapteron gracile, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1890, p. 168. 



2 • Antennae, head, and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen black 

 above, with the 1st and 3rd segments and anal tuft orange, and 

 traces of orange bands below. Tore wings orange, powdered with 

 a few black scales. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins orange ; cilia 

 of both wings black. Legs orange and black. 



Bab. Rangoon. Exp. 34 millim. 



360. Sciapteron cnpreivitta, n. sp. 



<$ . Palpi yellow ; frons grey, surrounded by white ; head, thorax, 

 and abdomen blue-black, the 5th segment of the last banded with 

 yellow ; anal tuft blue-black, with two tufts of yellow scales above ; 

 tibiae banded with yellow ; tarsi yellow. Tore wing above brown, 

 suffused with blue-black ; slight yellow hyaline streaks between 

 the nervules : a brilliant coppery-red streak in the end of the cell ; 

 below coppery gold. Hind wing with the discocellular band 

 coppery ; the veins, margins, and cilia brown. 



Hob. Eastern Pegu, 1000 feet, April (Doherty). Exp. 28 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



361. Sciapteron tenuimarginatum, n. sp. 



2 • Differs from typical Sciapteron in vein 5 of hind wing arising 

 from near the upper angle of cell. Palpi yellow ; frons white ; 

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