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VESCISA; ME S OPHRACTI AS. By W. Warren. 
redbrown line from middle of costa to inner margin touching inner line; an indistinct redbroAvn outer 
line bent at vein 4; termen and fringe blood red, the fringe with a white line at base; hindwing grey brown, 
the terminal area suffused with blood red; minutely waved subbasal, median, outer, and subterminal lines; 
a semihyaline quadrate subapical spot with white clots above and below it; fringe blood red. The unique 
type, a q, from Ceylon. 
16. Genus: Tesdsa Walk. 
Tongue well developed; Irons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment widening at apex, 
the third short, porrect; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and abdomen smooth, without crests; both wings 
with termen produced at veins 6 and 4; vein 6 from below upper angle, 7 from the angle; 8, 9, 10 
stalked; hindwing with cell short, veins 3, 4 stalked; retinaculum covered by a tuft of hair. TjqDe 
V. commoda Walk. 
Sect. I. Termen of both wings acutely produced at veins 4 and 6. 
crenulata. V. crenulata Hmps. Eorewing purplish grey with black dusting; the lines blackish; the inner 
strongly curved; median double, the inner arm the stronger, sharply angled outwards beyond cell, 
minutely waved below; outer line angled on vein 7, then inwardly oblique, lunulate dentate; subterminal 
line marked by dark patches towards costa and inner margin; a black cell dot; hindwing similar, without 
inner line; the median line edged outwardly with yellowish white, followed below middle by red irroration; 
subterminal line pale, ending in a strong black bar from vein 3 to inner margin; head and tegulae 
bright rufous. The type, a $, from Bhutan, N. India. 
Sect. II. Termen of both wings bluntly produced at veins 4 and 6. 
commoda. V. commoda Walk. (22 a). Forewing pale purplish grey; lines blackish, indistinct and interrupted; 
the inner black at costa, incurved in cell, excurved below it; median line double, interrupted in middle of whig; 
outer line fine, outwardly oblique from costa, below 7 inwardly oblique and dentate lunulate, followed on costa 
by rufous suffusion and a minute ivedgeshaped whitish mark below costa; subterminal line a row of black dots; 
a row of terminal rufous dots; a dark dot in middle of cell and on discocellular; hindwing similar; a band 
of rufous and yellow irroration below middle before the outer line; subterminal line pale, with black dots, 
ending in a black bar from vein 2 to tornus; head and tegulae rufous. Sarawak, Borneo, and Singa¬ 
pore; also from New Guinea and the Solomon Ids. J 
digona. V. digona Hmps. (22 a). ForeAving purplish grey tinged with red brown and dusted with blackish; 
a black dot at base, black subbasal dots on costa and in cell, and black dusting on inner margin; lines 
black, interrupted; inner an oblique black striga from costa, then slight, angled on median vein, minutely 
waved below it, preceded at costa by a fainter line; median line diffuse, angled on vein 6 beyond 
cell, inwardly oblique below 4, the costa beyond it whitish with a black dash below; outer line oblique and 
black at costa, lunulate dentate below middle, followed on costa by a triangular black mark edged 
with white; an indistinct dark subterminal line; a slight dark cell spot; hindwing similar, but the space 
interrupta. between outer and subterminal lines paler, Avith a black dot above submedian fold; in the ab. inter- 
rupta ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) (22 a) the median line on foreAving is obsolete except at extremities, and is 
marked on inner margin by a black blotch; the AA r hite costal patch beyond it is absent; the median 
semirufa. line on hindAving is indistinct, and the black dot doubled to form a black bar; in ab. semirufa ab. nov. (= ab. 
2 Hmps.) the terminal half of foreAving and the median and terminal areas of hindwing are suffused with red- 
uniformis. broAvn; in ab. uniformis ab. nov. (22 a) both wings are uniform faAvn grey, with small dark costal marks beyond 
median and outer lines of foreAving and the black subanal dot on hindwing; the lines very fine and inconspicuous. 
Queensland. The $ only is knoAvn. 
17. Genus: Mesopliractias gen. nov. 
Differs from Vescisa in the Avings being longer and narrower; the termen of both bearing a bluntly 
rounded projection at middle beyond veins 3 and 4, above and beloAV Avhich it is excised; veins 3, 4 
