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from costa to vein 6, excurved and denticulate at middle, oblique to submedian fold and bent outwards above 
inner margin; fringe with blackish tips and a slight pale line through them; hindwing brownish ochreous 
with the fringe pale. Khasia Hills, Assam; described from a single $. 
M. fervens Hmps. (26 d). Forewing ochreous suffused with rufous; a white sjtot in base of cell; fervens. 
lines white with some black scales on their inner edge; the inner excurved and wavy between subcostal vein 
and submedian fold; the outer strongly excurved beyond cell, touching first the upper and again the lower 
end of reniform, then sinuous; the reniform a small white lunule with a few black scales on it; subterminal line 
incomplete, white, outwardly angled on veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle, and inangled on the two folds; 
hindwing ochreous whitish tinged with brown. Bombay and Madras, S. India. 
M. guttifera spec. nov. (25 i, k). Forewing uniform pale olive brown, the basal area slightly washed guttifera. 
with whitish at and below median vein; inner line inwardly oblique, straight with minute teeth, black inwardly 
edged with white; outer line white, oblique outwards to vein 6, then black and obscure to 4, slightly indented 
on cell fold, then broadly white and strongly incurved on submedian fold to inner margin; reniform white touch¬ 
ing outer line at costa, its lower half with a black spot; a faint oblique brown cloud from apex; subterminal 
line absent, indicated in $ sometimes by dark clouding: fringe grey brown; hindwing pale grey, darker apically; 
underside of forewing glossy dark fuscous; costal and terminal areas yellowish; inner margin white; hindwing 
white thickly speckled with grey; head and thorax pale olive brown mixed with white, especially in $; ab¬ 
domen whitish speckled with grey. The Khasia Hills, Assam. Type in the Tring Museum. 
90. Genus: Uiliac<»<!ia Hbn. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth, rough with scales; palpi upturned, the second segment broad, 
roughly haired beneath, the third smooth, pointed, variable in length; antennae of pubescent; thorax and ab¬ 
domen clothed with scales; the mesothorax and metathorax crested; basal segments of dorsum crested, the 
crests on segments 3 and 4 larger; fore wing with are ole; hindwing with veins 3, 4 from cell. Larvae with the 
first pair of abdominal prolegs aborted; feeding, those that are known, on grasses; hybernating as pupae in a 
spun cocoon on the ground. Type L. bellicula Hbn. 
L. micronephra Hmps. (25 m). Forewing fulvous red to outer line, the terminal area purplish fuscous; microne- 
lines white, slightly edged with blackish scales, a little oblique outwards and sinuous; the reniform white, swollen V^ ra - 
below; subterminal line obscure, whitish at costa, then grey and macular; terminal black and white dots; fringe 
dark at base, the tips whitish; hindwing grey, the tips of fringe yellowish white. The type, a from Milne 
Bay, British New Guinea. 
L. crotopha Swinh. (26 d). Forewing yellowish green irrorated with black and white scales; costal crotopha. 
area tinged with brownish; a slight rufous patch above base of inner margin; inner line blackish, inwardly 
marked by some whitish scales, vertical, subdentate, preceded by a diffuse dark shade from costa; a sinuous 
diffuse median shade; outer line black, outwardly white edged, bent out below costa, then lunulate dentate, 
incurved below vein 4; reniform pale, 8-shaped, with dark spot in lower half; subterminal line defined by dark 
shades; that preceding it broad and dentate edged at costa, interrupted beyond cell, then oblique from vein 4; 
the outer shade more regular and macular; terminal black lunules defined by white; hindwing reddish fuscous. 
Found in the Khasia Hills, Assam. 
L. bryistis Trnr. (26 d). Fore wing dull green; subbasal and inner lines black and double, oblique outwards bryistis. 
to median vein, then oblique inwards, dentate; median area blackish to below middle; orbicular and reniform 
stigmata rufous edged with dark; a rufous blotch beyond cell; outer line lunulate dentate, slightly edged with 
white, incurved below vein 4; postmeclian area rufous, crossed below middle by a double black shade from 
median area; terminal area green; fringe rufous, with black dots at base; hindwing luteous tinged with grey; 
a pale sinuous outer line edged on both sides with dark grey; cell spot grey; fringe pale. Brisbane, Queens¬ 
land; a single <$. 
L. cupreofusca Hmps. (26 d). Forewing deep cupreous black brown, with some paler admixture, espe- cupreo- 
cially in basal area; lines dark, indistinct, the inner and outer conversely edged with yellowish brown; the inner f usca ’ 
