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M. alba Moore (25 g). White. Antennae brown, bicombed. The pinnae from the middle to the tip alba. 
regularly and distinctly shortened; head and neck whitish-yellow with black dots; shoulder-covers and thorax 
white, dotted black; abdomen light ochreous-yellow with broad black rings. Forewing white. Hindwing lactean, 
from vein 4 to the abdominal margin at the distal margin indented. The $ differs by the broader wings, the 
hindwing being more of a grey hue and with an unindentecl distal margin. Length of forewing: $ 23, $ 27 mm. 
Ceylon. 
M. correcta Wkr. (= ceylonica Fldr.) (25 g). Antennae, head and thorax yellowish greyish-brown, thorax correcta. 
with minute, black dots. Abdomen yellow with a median row of black spots. Forewing yellowish greyish- 
brown with a somewhat lighter, broad, median transverse band. Hindwing in the basal half yellow, faintly 
shaded with greyish. $ the same. Length of forewing: 30 mm. Ceylon. 
20. Genus: Paraplastis Hmps. 
Distinguished from Migoplastis by the less porrect 3rd palpal joint, the hair-tuft of the forehead, and 
by the veins 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the forewing rising on a footstalk, the veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing also on a 
footstalk; the abdominal margin upward strongly bent round; the upper surface between the veins 1 and 6 
densely covered with coarse, rough scales. 
P. hampsoni Swinh. (25 g). Yellowish greyish-brown. Antennae long, bicombed and greyish-brown; hampsoni. 
head and thorax yellowish greyish-brown; upperhead, collar, thorax and shoulder-covers with small, black 
dots; abdomen ochreous-yellow with a median row of black spots. Forewing yellowish greyish-brown, with 
a broad, lighter, median transverse band. Hindwing brownish greyish-yellow, at the distal margin between 
vein 3 and the anal angle very much indented, so that the latter ends into a distinct lobe. The $ differs from 
the by the band of the forewing not being so distinctly brightened up, the hindwing being of the same 
colouring as the forewing, and the distal margin of the hindwing scarcely distinctly indented. Length of fore¬ 
wing: $ 25, $ 24 to 20 mm. Nil gin Mountains (South India). 
Appendix. 
1. Genus: Oroiicus Sz. 
Comp. Vol. II, p. 82, to which we must acid: 
0. biati Oberth. resembles urania (Vol. II, t. 16 h), but the costal stripe and hindwing are yolk-coloured, biati. 
the former extends from the middle of the costa to the anal angle. West China. 
2. Genus: Camptoloma Fldr. 
This genus has been dealt with on p. 75 of Vol. II. In the whole more ancient literature the only species 
belonging hereto was inserted as an Arctiid, and Hampsoh in his ,,Fauna of India“ places it beside the following 
genus and with it between Nicaea and Moorea, both of which are allied to the Callimorphinae. Later on it has 
been tried to separate the whole Callimorphinae altogether from the Arctiids, by assuming the numerous marks 
common to both to be the effects of convergency. The opinions current with respect to this have for the present 
not been so firmly established as to allow us to put ourselves at variance with the entire literature existing 
on that point, for many other modern works have not adopted this innovation. 
The only species occurring in the Indian region seems to me to be nothing else but a form of the East 
Asiatic C. interiorata described in the Palearctic Part (Vol. II, p. 75) and figured there on t. 13 1. The latter 
figure is so very true and at the same time so characteristic of the species, that nothing needs to be added but 
that the Indian form C. binotatum Btlr. ( = flagrans Swinh.) is extremely similar to the palearctic form. The binoiatum. 
most conspicuous difference is that in binotatum there are only 2 dark spots on the fringes above the proximal 
angle of the forewing, and that the black oblique streak passing behind the cell-end begins from the middle 
of the costa, not before its distal third. Inclo-China. 
3. Genus: ILencopardus Hmps. 
The genus is founded upon one species from the Khasia Hills. Palpi porrect, projecting little beyond 
the head; B antennae plain. Tibiae with long spurs. Forewing large compared with the much smaller hindwing; 
the 2nd to 4th subcostal veins on a footstalk, the lower radial and upper median vein from the same place, 
from the lower cell-angle. On the hindwing the upper median vein rises on a footstalk with the lower radial, 
the upper radial rises close above the lower cell-angle. 
