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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIINCE AND CRAMBINCE. 961 Hind wing fuscous black ; the cilia white. Underside with the basal two thirds of wings suffused with fuscous black. Hab. Ceylon (Butt). Exp. 32 mm. Type. (2)tEsCHATA GELIDA, Wlk. ix. p. 133. Sikhim ; Khasis. (3)fEscHATA CHRYSARGYRIA, Wlk. xxxii. 634. N. China; Sikhim; Assam; Nilgiris; „ argentata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 227. Burma; Ceram. (4)tES0HATA XANTHOCERA, n. Sp. cf. Differs from chrysargyria in the antennae being orange ; the legs orange fringed with white hair. Fore wing wdth the post-medial and submarginal lines almost obsolete ; the cilia white with golden tips throughout. Hab. Ceylon (Green). Exp. 38 mm. SECT. II. Fore wing with the apex rectangular and not produced. (5)fEscHATA CONSPUROATA, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 227. Sikhim. (6)fEscHATA PERCANDIDA, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 293. Rangoon. (7)tEscHATA OCHRIPES, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 143, pi. 156. f. 23. Nilgiris. Genus DORATOPERAS, nov. Proboscis absent; palpi clothed with hair and hardly extending beyond the maxillary palpi and the long pointed frontal process; antennae of male serrate and fasciculate, of female minutely serrate and ciliated; tibae with the spurs short. Fore wing long and narrow; the apex produced and acute in female ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4,5 from angle; 6, 7 from a point; 8, 9 from well before upper angle; 10,11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6,7 from upper angle. Fig. 43. Boratoperas atrosparsellus, $. \. i, fDoRATOPERAS ATROSPARSELLUS, Wlk. xxvii. 163. Columbia ; Brazil. fNystalia zeuzeroides, Wlk. xxxiii. 761. fDonacoscaptes lanceolatus, Zell. Hor. Ent. Ross. 1881, p. 159, pi. xi. f. 4. Qhilo spectabilis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 2, |