MA ED ABA. NUMENES. 455 



Hind wing white, with a round black spot at end of cell ; a sub- 

 marginal patch on veins 2 and 3 ; a patch on costa before the 

 apex and on outer margin below it ; outer area slightly irrorated 

 with black. 



Hah. Sikhim; Nagas. Exp., J 66, $ 72 millim. 



*1017. Mardara irrorata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 52 • a fy S. no. 1057. 



3 . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen brighter ; antennae 

 brown ; legs speckled with brown. Fore wing ochreous white, 

 sparsely irrorated with red-brown scales ; a pale spot at end of 

 cell enclosing a brown line on discocellulars which is necked with 

 yellow 7 . Hind wing ochreous white, the outer area sparsely 

 irrorated with red-brown scales. 

 Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 57 millim. 



1018. Mardara caligramma, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 204 ; C. $ S. no. 997. 



d . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and yellow hairs ; 

 fulvous-yellow 7 tufts on metatborax ; abdomen fuscous, the segments 

 fringed with yellow ; the anal tuft orange. Fore wing dark 

 brow 7 n ; the veins yellowish ; a subbasal oblique yellow line ; an 

 antemedial highly angled line conjoined to a doubly angled post- 

 medial line which touches a waved submarginal line, thus forming 

 large reticulations ; a yellow spot on discocellulars. Hind wing 

 smoky black ; cilia of both wings ochreous. 



Hah. Simla ; Sikhim ; Nagas. Exp., J 50, $ 58 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi not reaching beyond the frons ; fore wing with 

 vein 10 given off towards apex. 



1019. Mardara albostriata, n. sp. 



<5 . Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen black, the segments 

 fringed with white, the anal tuft orange. Fore wing red-brown ; 

 the veins streaked with white ; a basal white patch with a dark 

 spot on it ; a subbasal white line ; an angulated antemedial line 

 with a streak in the interno-median interspace from it to an 

 excurved postmedial line which nearly touches an incurved sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wing white, with some black spots near apex 

 and on margin ; two large spots near anal angle. Undersides of 

 both wings white, with the apices brown. 



Hah. Manipur ; Nagas {Doherty). Exp. 60 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus NUMENES. 



Numenes, Wlh. Cat. iii, p. 662 (1855). 

 Pseudomesa, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 923 (1855). 



Type, JV. siletti, "Wlk. 



Eange. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Burma ; Java. 



