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the termen slightly bent at vein 3 and emarginate above; neuration as in Alypophanes. Type S. 'punctata 
spec. nov. 
S. punctata spec. nov. (24e). Forewing pale pink; lines black, inwardly oblique, broken up into spots; -punctata. 
inner line marked by dots on the folds as well as on the lines; a large round cellspot filled in with whitish, 
with black centre and outline, the median shade below it indicated by two black dots; outer line double, out- 
curved round cell and strongly incurved below it, with angled markings; a row of slight dark sub¬ 
terminal dots; the terminal area shaded with fuscous; fringe dark with the tips white; hindwing whitish, with 
a double grey median line marked with black on veins 3, 4 and towards inner margin; apical half of 
wing grey; a subterminal dark line below middle of wing beyond which the terminal area is pink; the fringe 
white; underside fuscous grey in forewing and along costa and termen of hindwing; face and ver¬ 
tex white; thorax and abdomen pink; dorsum with a double row of black points, which are larger on basal 
segments. 1 $ from the Khasia Hills, Assam. Type in the Tring Museum. 
31. Genus : Decticryptis Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upeurved before face, very slender, the third segment 
not reaching vertex; antennae of <$ with short sessile fascicles of cilia, with a. short porrect tuft of scales 
from basal segment; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; tibiae smooth, the spurs long; 
fore wing narrow and elongate; the apex subacute; termen angled at vein 3, excised above, oblique and 
straight below; vein 5 from close above 4; 6 from the depressed end of subcostal; 7, 8, 9 stalked from the 
bend, 9 being coincident with 8; 10, 11 from cell; hindwing with an incision in costal edge beyond middle, the 
costa produced and prominent at vein 7, the termen below it indented; veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 from below 
middle of discocellular. Type D. deletci Moore. The species of this and the succeeding genus are insects of 
small size and very delicate structure; superficially distinguished by their glossy white ground colour. 
D. deleta Moore (22 c). Forewing white with brownish ochreous suffusion; a brownish subbasal shade dcleta. 
below middle, with a black point on it above inner margin; inner line brownish, curved and sinuous; a 
black point in middle of cell; a faint pale bar on discocellular; outer line white, with brown suffusion 
before it at costa, oblique to cell fold near termen, where there is some rufous scaling belore it, then strongly 
incurved to inner margin; a white line just before termen, excurved at middle, then bent inwards and oblique 
to tornus; some blackish scaling on termen from below apex to the angle at vein 3; hindwing white, suffused 
with brownish ochreous on costal half and along inner margin; brown median and outer lines interrupted across 
submedian interval; two black cellspots, sometimes joined to form a bar; subterminal line white, ending 
at vein 2, preceded by dark reddish brown suffusion; -—- in ab. obsolescens ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the obsolescens. 
wings are white with the markings obsolescent; — in ab. nigritacta ab. nov. (— ab. 3 Hmps.) the subterminal nigritacta. 
line of forewing is preceded by thick black scaling from below costa to vein 3, and followed by black which 
extends on to the fringe at apex and middle. The type from Ceylon; but the species is widely spread, being 
recorded also from Pulo Laut, Bali, Sumbawa, the Louisiades, Goodenough Island. 
32. Genus: Molocryptis Lucas. 
Differs from Decticryptis in the termen of forewing being evenly curved, the apex blunt, not produced; 
veins 7, 8, 9 stalked; antennae of $ lamellate instead of ciliated; the palpi much stronger and stouter, 
the third segment reaching well above vertex. Type H. phasianura Lucas. 
H. bisectalis Walk. (22 c). Forewing white; a black dot in base of cell; a crenulate fuscous biscctalis. 
subbasal line; inner line blackish, obliquely excurved from costa to submedian fold, then incurved, followed 
by blackish irroration and an ochreous tinge at costa; a black dot in middle of cell; median band straight, 
black, inwardly oblique; two black striae on discocellular, the lower one oblique; outer line slight, blackish, 
with black striae at costa and inner margin, angled outwards below costa and incurved at submedian fold; 
a faint yellowish patch on costa towards apex, and a reddish patch on inner margin towards tornus with 
fuscous before it; fringe yellowish white with fuscous towards tornus; hindwing white to outer line, then 
blood red; a black bar across middle of cell with a yellow patch beyond it, on which stands the white 
black-edged cell lunule; median line black, excurved round cell; outer line fine, black, outwardly angled 
