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rather narrow oblique band from 4 / 6 of costa to s / 4 of fold, with short 
longitudinal streaks of the same colour in fold and on upper angle of cell; 
on costa this band dilated so as to form a small subquadrate blotch, which 
ends on costal edge with two blackish points, separated by whitish ground 
colour; base of costa slightly suffused with fuscous, costa dotted throughout 
with dark fuscous; an irregular submarginal darker fuscous fascia from 
tornus to below apex, interrupted in middle; a narrow fuscous marginal 
line in apex and along termen to tornus; discal and plical scale-tufts 
present. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate; white, towards apex 
faintly marbled with grey, cilia white. 
Ostium broad. Limen formed by two broad plates, separated in middle 
by a broad cleft, their upper rims dilated and more sclerotized, united in 
middle by the angularly bent limen proper, with top projecting above, 
deeply incised below. Seventh ventrite with a delicate rounded plate at 
each side. Ductus bursae narrow, moderately long. Bursa copulatrix small. 
Signum, a weak circular plate with a short hollow projection in middle. 
Ovipositor with upper lobe almost bipartite, lower lobe broad. (Slide 
No. 650 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 25, 1938. One specimen. 
The veins 7 and 8 are long-stalked in left, short-stalked in right fore wing, 
which seems to indicate that the specimen is abnormally developed, not 
justifying the erection of a new genus. 
Schoenotenes virens spec. nov. (figs. 442, 452) 
rj 16 mm, $ 19 — 22 mm. Head whitish, suffused with light fuscous- 
greyish, more suffused in male. Palpus fuscous-greyisli, darker in female. 
Thorax pale whitish-yellow, coarsely mixed and dotted with dark fuscous. 
Abdomen pale whitish -ochreous in male, light brownish in female. Legs 
whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus infuscated above. Fore wing elongate, 
moderately dilated, more so in female ; costa curved throughout, moderately 
in male, considerably in female; apex subacute, slightly curved and 
projecting, termen sinuate, oblique. Very pale yellow-greenish, retinate 
and marked with fuscous-greyish. A streak along basal 1 / 4 of costa, 
irrorated with ground colour, connected posteriorly by a transverse wedge- 
shaped narrow fascia, which is narrowed and somewhat zigzag in male, 
with a triangular spot of fuscous irroration on 1 / 3 of dorsum, narrowly 
extended anteriorly almost to base, retinate along lower half, top to fold ; 
a semiovate spot on middle of costa (in female elongate), connected with 
a dark fuscous broad suffused patch above and beyond posterior 1 / 3 of cell, 
almost connected posteriorly with a moderate subquadrate costal patch 
beyond 3 / 4 of costa, and in female connected also with an inw'ardly concave 
moderate little oblique patch in tornus, which is ill-defined in male; 
preterminal spot narrowly erect or almost linear in male, broader, spindle- 
