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A. plumosa Mr. (56 B f). $ darker brown than cashmirensis, the reddish tint is very faint. In the plumosa. 
forewing the median line is very slightly bent below the costa, the undulate lines are feebly traceable, the post¬ 
median line is proximally whitish, distally red, the marginal area darker with reddish veins and without an 
undulate line. In the hindwing the undulate line and postmedian line are almost extinct, the marginal area 
dark without an undulate line. In the $ the undulate median lines are in both wings more distinct, the post- 
median line dark brown. Expanse of wings: 94, $ 102 mm. Nilgiri Plateau (India). 
A. shevaroyensis Mr. (57 c). The is duller brown than plumosa, in the forewing the antemedian shevaroyen- 
line is extinct, the median line and postmedian line oblicpier, the undulate lines more distinct. Expanse of **'*• 
wings: 134 mm. India (Nilgiri Plateau, Shevaroys); Ceylon. 
A. frater Rothsch. is very closely allied to shevaroyensis, but smaller, greyer, at once discernible by frater. 
the projecting apical lobe and the brighter marking. Khasia Hills (Assam). 
8. Genus: I>reata Wkr. 
Palpi long, obliquely erect and densely fringed with hair. Antennae pinnate. Forewing short with 
a rounded apex, without an areola, the discocellular above and below vein 5 angular, the upper abscissa of 
it less oblique than in Melanothrix, veins 7 + 8+9 forked, from the cell-apex. Also in the hindwing the 
discocellular is angular above and below vein 5, 6 and 7 rise from the cell-angle. 
D. hades WTcr. (37 d). mouse-coloured brown, in the discal area of the forewing and basal area hades. 
of the hindwing lighter; forewing with five indistinct undulate transverse lines and an almost straight, distinctly 
marked postmedian line almost vertical on the dorsal margin, and with an undulate sublimbal line. In the 
hindwing the undulate lines are absent in the basal half, and the postmedian line is less distinctly marked, the 
sublimbal line only in the forewing. Expanse of wings: 72 mm. Assam. 
9. Genus: Palirisa Mr. 
Palpi erect and densely fringed with hair. Antennae with short pinnae. Forewing very broad, at the 
apex rounded, the discocellular above vein 5 in both wings angular, in the forewing the upper abscissa of the 
discocellular is but little oblique, almost erect, veins 7 + 8 + 9 forked, rising from the cell-apex, no areola. 
Discocellular of hindwing oblique. 
P. lineosa Wkr. (31 a) is light reddish-ochreous; forewing with 6 almost straight and erect transverse lineosa. 
lines, the fourth of which (counting from the base) is slightly undulate and often blurred, whereas the sublimbal 
line is curved and proximally margined with grey. Hindwing with an antemedian, a submedian, a postmedian 
and a sublimbal transverse line. Expanse of wings: 100 to 110, $ 120 to 128 mm. Widely distributed in 
India (Sikkim, Bhutan, Sylliet, Naga Hills). 
P. cervina Mr. (31c). + Distinguished from lineosa by its light greyish-brown colouring; palpi black, cervina. 
fringed with ochreous hair; antennae black. Forewing only with a median and postmedian line of a reddish 
tint, and a somewhat undulate sublimbal line; between the latter and the postmedian line the ground-colour 
is darker. Hindwing with three blurred transverse lines, but without a sublimbal line. — ab. burmanica ah. nov. burmanica . 
from Burma, probably also elsewhere, has light palpi and antennae. — Expanse of wings: 104 mm. Sikkim 
and Burma. 
P. sinensis Rothsch. is allied to cervina (31 c), but differs in the $ by its smaller size, paler silvery sinensis. 
grey colour, and by the transverse bands of the forewing being closer together and duller. The $ is less reddish- 
yellow than that of cervina, the bands of the forewing are here likewise closer together. Described from China. 
10. Genus: Tagora Wkr. 
Palpi erect and densely fringed with hair. Antennal combs pinnate. Forewing very broad, with a 
projecting apex by which it differs from Talirisa, the discocellular also in the hindwing angular above vein 5, 
the upper abscissa of it turned vertically on the costal margin, veins 7 + 8+9 forked and rising from the cell- 
apex. In the hindwing the discocellular but little oblique, veins 6 + 7 from the angle of the cell on a very short 
footstalk or from one and the same place. 
T. patula Wkr. (= undulosa Wkr.) (31 a) has a sharper apex of the forewing than the following patula. 
species. The is pale reddish-ochreous, the head, however, black. The basal joint of the antenna exhibits 
a light hair-tuft. Forewing with a hyaline spot at the cell-end, two reddish oblique lines from the proximal 
