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extremity. Fore wing bright ochreous^ with traces of pale subbasal, antemedial, and medial 
waved lines ; a white dot beyond the end of the cell ; a more distinct waved and strongly 
excnrved postmedial line ; a waved submarginal line, strongly blotched with black towards the 
outer angle ; the tufts of scales on inner margin black ; some white dots on the costa 
towards the apex. Hind wing uniform pale fuscous. 
Helia tessellata. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 18.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing whitish ; the last with a black patch at the base of 
the costa ; an irregular black antemedial band, narrow in the cell and at submedian nervure ; 
a postmedial waved black band, expanding into a large patch in and beyond the cell, and 
enclosing a pale streak on the discoccllulars ; a black patch on the costa before the apex with 
two white strigse on it ; a series of marginal black lunules with dusky patches at middle of 
outer margin and outer angle. Abdomen and hind wing suffused with fuscous ; the latter 
with traces of medial and marginal lines. Cilia chequered brown and whitish. Underside 
suffused with smoky black ; hind wing with a spot at cud of cell and postmedial maculate 
line. 
Helia paucimaculata. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 16.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Differs from H. tessellata in having the head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with 
ochreous ; the antemedial band of the last reduced to a small spot on the costa, the remainder 
being obsolescent ; an additional spot in centre of cell ; the black expansion of the post- 
medial band much reduced in size, the remainder of band obsolescent ; a marginal series of 
black specks, not lunules, and the dusky patches absent ; cilia of both wings uniform pale 
brown. Abdomen with a black spot at base ; fore femora black. 
AIl.ffiOPTEEON, g. n. 
Male. Antennae simple. Palpi upturned, slender, and short. Fore wing with a costal 
nervure ; the third subcostal from before the end of cell, giving off the first and second on 
one side, and the fourth on the other ; the fifth subcostal from end of cell and widely sepa- 
rated from the third ; upper radial from the middle of the discoccllulars ; lower radial and 
second and third medians, which are stalked, from the lower angle of cell ; the first median 
from before the end ; a submedian nervure. Hind wing with the costal given off from the 
subcostal near the base ; the two subcostals stalked ; radial from the middle of the disco- 
cellulars ; second and third medians from the lower angle stalked ; the first from before the 
end of cell ; submedian and internal nervures. 
