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Genus BRACHARTONA. 



Brachartona, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 44 (1891). 



Type, B. quadrimaculata, Moore. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Tenasserim. 



Antennas bipectinated in the male, ciliated in the female. Fore 

 wing with veins 8 and 9 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 

 stalked ; 6 absent. 



Sect. I. Male with antennas long, the branches slender. 



479. Brachartona quadrimaculata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 390 ; 

 C. 8f S. no. 298. 



Dull purplish black. Fore wing with a 

 large ochreous spot beyond the cell. Hind 

 wing with an ochreous streak beyond the 

 cell, curving up to the costa beyond it. 



Hah. Mussooree ; Kangra ; Dharinsala. 



Fig. 148.— Brachartona Ex P- 18 millim. 



quadrimaculata, tf . j. 



Sect. II. Male with short antennas, the branches stout and 

 decreasing to apex. 



480. Brachartona catoxantha, n. sp. 



3 . Upperside uniform dark brown ; frons and palpi yellow, 

 the former with a black spot at middle ; underside of the thorax, 

 abdomen, and the legs yellow. Fore wing brown below, with 

 yellow patches on the costa at base and apex; hind wing brown; 

 the costal area yellow, the veins on it black. 



Hah. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). Exp. 16 millim. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



Genus CALLARTONA, nov. 



Type, C.purpurascens, Hmpsn. 



Range. Nilgiris. 



Palpi upturned, reaching the top of head. Fore wing with veins 

 7 and 8 stalked. Hind wing with veins 2, 3, and 4 from close to 

 the lower end of cell, 5 from near upper end, 6 and 7 stalked. 

 Tibias of mid and hind legs with the spurs long. 



481. Callartona purpurascens, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 44, pi. 139, 



fig. 4. 



$ . Black, with a brilliant purple shot ; head and tegulas yellow. 



