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in both wings and 6, 7 in hinclwings stalked; the palpi are more slender, upturned in front of face, the third 
segment minute. Type M. alstoni [Imps. 
M. alstoni Hmps. Forewing fuscous black with some grey irroration; lines black, indistinct; inner alstoni. 
line sinuous; median excurved at middle; outer line outwardly oblique and defined by a white band to vein 
6, outwardly angled at vein 4, then inwardly curved and lunulate dentate; subterminal line with an angled 
white mark below costa; fringe with some white scales at base towards apex; cellspot black; hindwing similar, 
but without any white scaling; in the ab. obfuscata ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the white scaling is absent in obfuscata. 
the forewings also. Ceylon. 
M. falcatalis Hmps. (22 a). Forewing dark red brown with a grey tinge; lines dark; the inner waved, falcatali.s. 
but indistinct; the median diffuse, angled outwards at middle; outer bent outwards at costa, then waved, 
incurved below vein 4; subterminal line sinuous, preceded by dark suffusion; fringe deep rufous; hincl- 
wing similar; a diffuse dark inner shade; terminal area and fringe darker. A single $ from Sikkim, N. India. 
18. Genus: Hilda Walk. 
Differs from Vescisa and Mesophractias in the apex of fore wing being somewhat produced, the termen 
bent at vein 3, and slightly indented below it and below apex; the hindwing also slightly produced at vein 7, 
with the termen indented below it, then nearly straight to below 2, the anal angle rounded; veins 3, 4 
of hindwing shortly stalked; palpi stouter, upcurved in front of face, the terminal segment erect and 
larger. Type S. truncatalis Walk. 
S. truncatalis Walk. Forewing purplish grey, tinged with rufous costally and with brown dusting; truncatalis. 
inner line rufous towards costa, then dark, sinuous; median line rufous, bent beyond cell, with traces 
of a dark line beyond it; outer line dark, double, minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, and angled 
outwards at vein 1; subterminal line formed of small black dentate marks; terminal line dark, punctiiorm 
above vein 5; a black dot at middle of cell, and fuscous spot at its end; hindwing similar, with the 
lines indistinct. The type, a from Sarawak, Borneo. 
S. rubricilia Hmps. (22 i). Forewing greyish white with sparse black dusting; lines blackish; the inner rubric-ilia. 
sinuous; the median bent outwards below costa and punctiform to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and 
denticulate; outer line similar, followed on costa by a blackish mark; subterminal whitish, outwardly 
defined by black; fringe rufous with white basal line; cellspot black; hindwing similar; the blackish med¬ 
ian line twice excurved; the subterminal whitish, dentate, with series of blackish points before and beyond 
it. Recorded from Sikkim and Bhutan in FT. India, and from Singapore in the Malay peninsula. 
S. lithina spec. nov. (24 a). Forewing pale luteous ochreous speckled with grey; lines obscure; the lithina. 
inner black, angled outwards on subcostal vein and submedian fold, incurved between, and oblique below 
fold to inner margin; median line grey, oblique outwards and excurved beyond cell, inwardly oblique below 4; 
outer line oblique outwards to 8, vertical to 4, then oblique inwards, marked by minute dark dots on the veins; 
subterminal line pale, preceded by a brown shade below middle and followed by two or three black dots above 
middle; a fine black terminal line; hindwing with small grey cell dot, inner, median, outer, and two subter¬ 
minal straight brown lines; the outer crenulate and marked with black; underside grey speckled. 1 from 
Halmaheira (W. Doherty). Type in Tring Museum. 
19. Genus: Eiiblemmoicles Beth.-Baker. 
Differs from the preceding genera in having the termen of forewing bluntly angled at middle above 
vein 4 and the termen of hindwing curved and rounded; veins 3, 4 from cell. Type E. dinawa Beth- 
jB aker. 
E. acrapex Hmps. (22 1). Forewing greyish white densely irrorated with dark red brown; inner line acrapex. 
dark, double, filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous; median line 
dark below middle; outer line dark, edged externally with white, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 
