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ANDROLYMNIA; N1KARA; APOCALYMNIA. By W. Warren. 
emarginata. 
castanea. 
with grey and white; veins marked with black and white scales; lines blackish; subbasal straight, inwardly 
oblique to vein 1; inner line angled on subcostal vein,-then vertical; outer line less defined, nearly vertical, 
outcurved above inner margin, followed by black vein dashes; subterminal obscurely pale, preceded by a slightly 
darker shade; median shade thick, bent on median vein, where it touches the intense black crescentic reniform 
stigma; hindwing bronzy fuscous, with darker cellspot. and veins; fringe paler especially at base; underside och- 
reous, dark-speckled, the hindwing whiter; forewing with the disc brownish; cellspots and outer line dark; 
head and thorax pale like forewing; dorsum like hindwing; palpi externally black, the third segment and tip 
of second segment pale; pectus and venter whitish ochreous. 2 $$, 36 mm. in expanse, from the Khasia Hills, 
Assam, taken by a native collector, February 1894. Type in the Tring Museum. The genus is doubtful in the 
absence of the <$. 
60. Genus: AiirtrolyiiiiBia Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, but with a large tuft of hair above; palpi upcurved, long 
and slender, the segments with appressed scales; antennae of <$ lamellate, simple; thorax clothed with scales and 
with slight crests; tibiae moderately hairy; forewing with apex slightly produced, the termen below it excised 
and outcurved at middle; neuration normal. Type A. emarginata Hmps. 
A. emarginata Hmps. Forewing purplish grey, irrorated and in parts suffused with chocolate brown; 
a dark dot at base of costa; inner line from a dark costal spot, strongly excurved but indistinct; outer line red- 
brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, shortly incurved beyond cell and deeply below middle; subter¬ 
minal line pale, ill-defined, preceded by a diffuse grey shade; terminal brown striae; fringe redbrown at tips; 
a triangular chocolate brown patch at middle of costa, with a black spot at its apex before the reniform 
stigma above median vein; a truncate chocolate brown patch on costa before subterminal line with dentate 
edges and whitish costal dots; reniform stigma with brown outline, constricted at middle; hindwing grey suffused 
with redbrown; fringe with a pale line at base. From Simla in the Punjab; Nilgiri Hills, Madras; 
Ceylon; Bali. 
61. Genus: Efikara Moore. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi short and stout, upturned, the second segment broadly 
scaled, the third short; antennae of minutely ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without 
crests; forewing(with apex rectangular; the termen smoothly curved. Type N. castanea Moore. 
N. castanea Moore (20 g). Forewing dark brown, with blue grey irroration as far as outer line, exten¬ 
ding to median vein and vein 2; the submedian fold except at base, the postmedian area, and apex deep cop¬ 
pery red; the inner area pale rufous with blue grey irroration; terminal area blue grey; inner line indistinct, 
deep red, oblique to submedian fold; outer line strong, black brown, oblique from costa to vein 6, and excurv¬ 
ed to vein 2, emitting streaks towards cell above and below veins 2 and 5, with a patch of blue grey irrora¬ 
tion beyond it on costa; both lines obsolete towards inner margin; orbicular stigma with red centre edged 
with blue grey; reniform indistinct, brown at centre with blue grey annulus; subterminal line blue grey, edg¬ 
ed on both sides with pale rufous, evenly curved, and obsolete at both extremities; fringe rufous; hindwing 
dark brown;'fringe grey at tips. Known from Sikkim only. 
62. Genus: Apocalymnisi Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons with large round corneous process with raised rim; palpi upcurved, 
short, both second and third segments closely scaled; antennae of $ ?, of $ lamellate, simple; head and tho¬ 
rax clothed with scales; a slight crest on metathorax and basal segment of dorsum; forewing rather elongate, 
the apex blunt, the termen more oblique, indented above tornus; neuration normal. Type A. tenebrosa 
Hmps.] the only species in the genus. 
tenebrosa. 
A. tenebrosa Hmps. Forewing purplish grey, suffused with brownish and with some dark dusting; 
