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tawny suffusion, which forms an oblique wedge-shaped transverse spot 
reaching to cell; this spot faintly speckled with blackish along edge, top 
connected with anterior extremity of an invert-semiovate moderate 
longitudinal spot of blackish irroration above middle of disc, suffused 
with olive-tawny above, reaching to closing vein ; posterior half of costa 
with two small points and four moderate longitudinal marks, last mark 
apical; these marks fuscous-blackish, alternating with pairs of transverse 
snow-white streaks which become longer posteriorly, last pair forming a 
triangle before apex, centred with ground colour. Silvery-white glossy 
markings: a narrow longitudinal streak along middle of central third of 
disc, interrupted by blackish dots which become larger posteriorly; this 
streak running along upper edge of posterior projection of basal patch 
and sending off a rather irregular white streak to dorsum; this streak 
edging lower half of basal patch, and abruptly strongly extended just 
beyond cell so as to form a large semicircular thick crescentic shiny white 
spot; this spot occupying more than middle half of wing breadth, with 
lower edge angularly incised, anterior extremity with an interrupted white 
streak; this streak strongly narrowed below and running to 3 / 5 of dorsum; 
posterior extremity of crescentic spot connected by white irroration with 
tornus; a small vertical streak from termen just above tornus to vein 5; 
a narrow terminal streak from vein 5 to 7, abruptly narrowed to a line 
above this vein and running to apex. White markings edged with rows of 
blackish points in middle third of disc posteriorly; space from 3 / s of dorsum 
below and beyond crescentic spot as far as vein 8 suffused with tawny- 
olive, this suffusion faintly extended to dark costal streaks; median / 5 
of dorsal edge densely irroratecl with fuscous- black. Cilia whitish touched 
greenish; cilia along lower half of termen, in tornus and along dorsum 
suffused with light brownish-ochreous. Hind wing light fuscous-grey, 
darker fuscous towards apex; cilia yellowish-white, suffused with pale 
yellowish-ochreous towards base. 
Limen, a large ovate plate, stronger sclerotized laterally. Ostium, a 
small sclerotized funnel. Ductus bursae very short. Cestum, an oblique 
folded piece of chitine. Bursa copulatrix elongate, for three-fourth clothed 
with fine bristles. Signa moderate, nail-shaped (Slide No. 796 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 14, 1938. One specimen. 
This is a distinct, elegantly coloured species. 
Spilonota pyrochlora spec. nov. (fig. 364) 
nvQ = fiie, /LojqAq = green 
^ 23 mm. Head whitish, touched with pale ochreous. Antenna slightly 
thickened, whitish, finely ringed with ferruginous above. Palpus whitish; 
basal segment except fringe and median segment anteriorly, below and 
on apical third, suffused with blackish, fringes whitish; terminal segment 
greyish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulder ferruginous, tegula fulvous, 
tip ochreous. Abdomen and legs ochreous-whitish, anterior tibia and 
