20 A. WATSON 



fore wing dark brown ; costa orange-yellow ; postmedial fascia on hind wing 

 simple (PI. i, fig. 294). Genitalia as in Text-figs. 8-1 1 . . muscularia (p. 20) 



- Collar and base of antenna without orange-yellow scales ; anterior part of sub- 



terminal fascia on fore wing pale grey (lighter than surrounding area of wing (PI. 1, 

 figs. 298, 299) ; costa not orange-yellow ; postmedial fascia of hind wing double. 

 Genitalia not as in Text-figs. 8-1 1 ......... 3 



3 Genitalia as in Text-figs. 12-15 ....... perhamata (p. 22) 



- Genitalia as in Text-figs. 16-18 ........ spicula p. 22) 



Paralbara muscularia (Walker) comb. n. 

 (PI. 1, fig. 294 ; Text-figs. 8-11) 



Fascellina muscularia Walker, 1866 : 1554. 



Albara muscularia (Walker) Warren, 1922 : 468. 



Albara muscularia (Walker) ; Gaede, 1931 : 32. 



Drepana orphnina Hampson, [1893] : 337. syn. n. 



Albara orphnina (Hampson) Warren, 1922 : 468. 



Albara orphnina (Hampson) ; Gaede, 1931 : 32. [The male and female syntypes of Albara 



orphnina ab. subpallida Warren are conspecific with the neotype of muscularia.'] 

 Albara inaequidiscata Warren, 1922 : 469. [Good figs.] syn. n. 



Distinguished from the closely allied perhamata by the following characters: 

 collar and base of antenna orange-yellow ; fore wing with anterior part of sub- 

 terminal fasciae dark brown ; costa orange-yellow ; postmedial fascia of hind wing 

 simple, all fascia poorly marked ; distal half of wing only slightly paler than 

 proximal half. The male and female genitalia are characteristic (Text-figs. 8-1 1). 



Wing. $ 14-5-20-5 mm. (24) ; $ 17-0-20-5 mm. (10). 



There is some variation in the size of the whitish cell markings on the upper 

 surface of the wings. In the lectotype and paralectotype of inaequidiscata and in 

 one other male specimen these markings are large and conspicuous (see Warren, 

 1922 : pi. 4gf). In the remaining specimens the cell markings are either minute or 

 absent. 



Distribution. N. India, N. Burma, and China. 



Material examined. Types, muscularia. No trace can be found of the original 

 type material which was stated by Walker (1866 : 1554) to be male, from ' North 

 Hindostan ', and to be deposited in the collection of A. E. Russell. The Russell 

 collection, however, is apparently lost (see Horn and Kahle, 1937 : 380). There is 

 no trace of the type material either in the BM(NH) or in the Hope Department 

 Museum, Oxford, where much of Walker's original material is deposited. I there- 

 fore select as NEOTYPE a $ in the collection of the BM(NH) labelled: Darjeeling, 

 22.viii.1886 (H. J. Elwes) ; Rothschild Bequest B. M. 1939-1 ; B. M. negative 

 No. 29101. 



orphnina. Holotype $, India, Naga Hills, 5500-7000 ft., viii-ix.1899 (Doherty) ; 

 Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 948. In the BM(NH). 



inaequidiscata. LECTOTYPE $, here selected Khasis Nat. Coll. ; H. J. Elwes ; 

 Albara inaequidiscata Type $ Warr. ; Rothschild Bequest B. M. 1939-1. In the 

 BM(NH). 



