AC HOB YL A. ASBLENIA . 
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white ; the veins irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal 
point ; the terminal area broadly suffused with brown leaving 
some white irroration on termen ; a fine dark terminal line ; 
cilia white mixed with brown at base ; the underside white > 
the costal area except at base and the terminal area irrorated 
with brown, a discoidal spot and curved minutely waved 
postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. Sind, Karachi ( T . R. Bell), 1 1 Exp. 28 
millirn. 
Genus ASPLENIA, now 
Type, A. melanodonta, Hmpsn. ( Melipotis ), P. Z. S. 1896, 
p. 263. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 
3rd short and thickly scaled ; frons with truncate corneous 
prominence with raised run at extremity and pointed process 
in centre, a curved corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 
round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly 
scaled ; the fore femora dilated, the tibiae and tarsi short 
with three claw- like spines on 1st joint of tarsus and the 
ungues large ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 
Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 
and slightly crenulate ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 
from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Asplenia chloridina, n. sp. 
Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; 
palpi white, brown towards tips ; abdomen ochreous tinged 
with rufous ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous 
white. Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown and 
irrorated with dark brown, the postmedial area creamy white 
except before the subterminal line where there is a band of 
brown suffusion ; two slight subbasal dark striae from costa 
and a minute spot below the cell ; antemedial line dark brown, 
waved ; a slight dark discoidal lunule with oblique dark striga 
above it from costa and diffused sinuous line from low’er 
angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line with two dark 
points at costa, then very indistinct excurved and dentate 
to vein 4, then more distinct, incurved, and angled outwards 
at vein 1 ; subterminal line dark brown, waved, excurved 
below vein 7 and angled outwards at veins 4, 3 ; a slight 
dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with brownish patches below 
