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dark streaks beyond it in interspaces towards apex; dark brown terminal lunules preceded by a waved white 
line; hindwing pale reddish brown; fringe whitish tinged with yellow at base and brown at tips. Aroa River, 
British New Guinea. 
Sect. II. Veins 10, 11 of forewing well separated at base. 
H. macroplaga Hmps. (25 o). Forewing white tinged with brownish; median area with a conical pale macroplaga. 
yellow patch flushed with rufous on inner marginal area; terminal area suffused with rufous; line3 
fine and indistinct in costal half, the median forming inner edge of the median patch, the outer line its outer 
edge; a diffuse oblique white streak from apex to lower angle of cell, defined below towards apex by a black 
fascia; subterminal line faint; a terminal series of dark striae; fringe white and brown; hindwing whitish 
tinged with faint brownish; fringe white with a slight line through it. Ceylon. 
H. semiochrea Hmps. (26 h). Forewing pale yellow to outer line, with rufous suffusion on costal area semiochrea. 
and before outer line; inner line dark, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; outer line 
dark, slightly defined on outer side by whitish, minutely angled outwards below costa, then obliquely excurved 
to inner margin; terminal area red brown with diffuse oblique pale streak from apex to outer line at vein 6; 
a dark terminal line; hindwing whitish with a reddish tinge especially towards termen; fringe whitish, brown 
towards apex. Sikkim and Assam, N. India. 
92. Genus: C-ophanta Walk. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth, roughened with scales; palpi upcurved, the second segment 
broadly scaled, the third short, erect; antennae of lamellate, pubescent; thorax without crests; abdomen 
with dorsal crests on basal segments; forewing with bluntly rounded apex; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; the sub¬ 
costal nervure strongly down-curved beyond 11, with an elongate groove above it on upper side nearly reaching 10; 
hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked; 5 weak from middle of discocellular. Type C. funestails Walk. 
C. funestalis Walk. (= anthracina Snell.) (26 i). $ Forewing purplish grey with black dusting and a f uneslalis. 
silvery gloss; the median area blackish; base of costa marked with black; the antemedian area with a blackish 
shade; inner line double, blackish, filled in with yellowish and with two yellowish lunules below middle; outer 
line double, oblique to vein 6, incurved below 4, with small yellowish lunules at outer edge of inner line; 
subterminal line with dark suffusion on both sides; a row of terminal black dots; hindwing glossy leaden 
grey; the $ is purplish black with the edges of the lines hardly paler; in the ab. optiva Swinln. (26i) the inner optiva. 
and outer lines of forewing are entirely filled in with yellow lunules. The type from Sarawak, Borneo; also 
from Celebes, whence Snellen’s anthracina, and Queensland; optiva Swinh. (26 i) from Burma and Ceylon; in 
the Tring Museum is a very dark $ from Solun, Punjab. 
93. Genus: XaiLiliogFapta Hmps. 
Differs from Cophanta in having veins 10, 11 of forewing both free from cell, 7, 8, 9 only stalked; 
vein 6 from below upper angle of cell. Type X. trilatalis Walk. 
X. trilatalis Walk. (26 i). Fore wing orange yellow in basal area dusted with brown, especially along trilatalis. 
costa; median area purplish fuscous; terminal area paler, purplish grey; inner and outer lines dark, double 
filled in with yellow, both slightly curved and wavy; subterminal line whitish, faint; slight black terminal 
striae; hindwing brownish grey; head and thorax orange yellow; — in the subsp. sobria subsp. nov. (= ab. sobria. 
1 Hmps.) the head, thorax, and basal area of forewings are greyish irrorated with fuscous, the rest of wing also 
dusted with fuscous; the terminal black striae alternated with white dots. The type form from the Punjab; 
the subspecies from Deesa, Bombay. 
X. pectinata spec. nov. (26 i). $ Forewing pinkish ochreous; median fascia dark fuscous mixed with pectinata. 
reddish, bounded inwardly by a vertical waved black inner line, and outwardly by the outer line which is 
minutely dentate lunulate, indented in cell and projecting above and below; terminal area clouded with fuscous; 
