Moths . from end of cell and inner margin to near outermargin at middle, then to the subcostals, its edge below the costasinuous. Hind wing whitish, with faint curved postmedial diffusedfuscous shade. Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 4721. Luma unicolor, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, p. 386, pi. 184, fig. 16; C. $ S. no. imiformis, Hmpsn. 111. Het. \x, p. 171, pi. 173, fig. 7. 5 • Uniform fulvous yellow, without the slightest trace ofmarkings or shade of any other Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 4722. Luma sericea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 451. Euscous brown ; palpi white at base ; f
Moths . from end of cell and inner margin to near outermargin at middle, then to the subcostals, its edge below the costasinuous. Hind wing whitish, with faint curved postmedial diffusedfuscous shade. Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 4721. Luma unicolor, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, p. 386, pi. 184, fig. 16; C. $ S. no. imiformis, Hmpsn. 111. Het. \x, p. 171, pi. 173, fig. 7. 5 • Uniform fulvous yellow, without the slightest trace ofmarkings or shade of any other Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 4722. Luma sericea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 451. Euscous brown ; palpi white at base ; frons grey. Pore wing with indistinct curved sinuous antemedial line, the medial part of costa ochreous ; a dark discocel- lular lunule with ochreous spot on its outer edge; an indistinct postmedial line, excurved between veins 6 and 3, slightly outlinedFie. 134.—Luma sericea, rf. I. -,-, i i i 6 u • t with ochreous, and. with large ochreous spot beyond it on costa; cilia ochreous except between. 230 PYKALIDJS. veins 2 and 4. Hind wing with indistinct cell-speck and slightlysinuous postmedial line ; underside suffused with Japan; Khasis ; Shan States. Exp. 22-26 ruilliin. 4723. Luma obscuralis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 300. Fuscous brown; head brownish ochreous ; palpi black at sides ;fore legs ochreous marked wTith fuscous; anal tuft ochreous. Forewing with obscure postmedial line arising from a blackish spot oncosta and very much excurved between veins 8 and 2. Hind win°-somewhat paler in parts; an obscure diffused postmedial lineexcurved between veins 6 and 2. Underside paler, with discocellularlunule; the postmedial line reduced to specks. Hah. Khasis. Exp. 22 millim. Genus ORPHNOPHANES. Orphnophanes, Led. Wien. ent. Man. 1863, p. , Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 467. Type, 0. eucerasalis, Wlk. Range. Sikhim ; Assam ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Amboina. Differs from Luma in the 2nd joint of palpi being shorter,hardly reaching vertex of hea
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