SELEPA. — S YMITHA. 
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HYPOGUAMMIDiE. 
Selepa grisea. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 13.) 
Expanse 1 j'^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing silvery grey ; dark double sulibasal, antemedial, and postmedial dentate 
curved transverse lines, the ground-colour between the two latter pairs being rather darker 
and slightly reddish ; an irregular dentate submargiiial line ; a slight black autecilial line ; 
the costa dai'ker at middle ; a blackish spot at lobe of inner margin ; two small rust-red 
spots, one just beyond the cell, the other at its lower extremity. Hind wing pale fuscous ; 
the apical portion of outer margin smoky black. Underside fuscous, some black strigse on 
costa of fore wing towards apex. 
Nearest to S. docilis. 
Selepa nadgani. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 6.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Female. Fore wing : basal area brown, with a black subbasal band from costa to sub- 
median nervure, followed by a waved outwardly-oblique antemedial one across the wing; 
beyond this brown area is a pale ochreous-brown one, with two dark brown strigse from the 
costa above the orbicular and reniform spots, which are pale, with narrow dark outlines and 
slight dark centres ; a postmedial very narrow black band, highly concave towards costa ; 
followed by a dark reddish-brown area, with some pale ochreous-brown marks on it, and a 
dark waved indistinct submarginal band, and black antecilial lunulate line. Hind wing 
fuscous, with fine cilial and antecilial dark lines. Underside ochreous white, irro rated with 
black : disc of fore wing fuscous ; fore wing with black strigse from costa at middle ; a post- 
medial band, obsolescent except near costa : hind wing with large black lunule at end of cell ; 
a postmedial waved l)and : both wings with antecilial lunulate lines. Head, thorax, and 
abdomen pale brown, the last with tufts of dark hairs on three basal segments. 
Symitha nigridisca. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 11.) 
Expanse y| inch. 
Male. Fore wing cream-colour, mottled with pale brown ; the whole disc occupied by a 
large black patch, which reaches the costa at the middle, extending along it more or less to 
the base, also to the outer margin just below the apex, and to just below the submedian vein 
at two points ; a black streak along first median nervule. Hind wing white ; apex and outer 
margin slightly suft'used with fuscous. Underside pale j fore wing sufl'uscd with fuscous 
above submedian vein. 
