( 13T ) 



Hindwing : like iorewing. 



Underside jialn sf raw-colour, witl) the lines distinct, dark grey. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale and dark yellowish ochreous ; shoulders 

 brownish fulvous with a dark line; base of patagia black; dorsum with pairs of 

 dark brown or fulvous spots. 



Expanse of wings : c?40mm.; ? 4i)— 46 mm. 



3 (?(?, 4 ? ?. One of these males is a dwarf, 3n mm., witliout black dots 

 or spots. 



In the aberration scutigera the second segment of dorsum bears a black 

 cruciform blotch and the anal segment a black sjiot, the others being marked 

 merely with fulvous. In one example the submarginal line of both wings bears 

 a large black blotch beyond cell, which is Iblhiwed by another beyond the line, and 

 in the forewing there are two smaller blotches below costa. 



3c?^. 



In the aberration scmifnscia the second segment ot dorsum is marked as in 

 ab. scutigera, and the other segments also bear smaller black marks of a similar 

 form; the forewing between outer and submarginal lines is tilled in with a black 

 blotch reaching from vein 4 to inner margin ; in this example, as in the dwarf 

 specimen of the type-form, there are no black marginal spots or scales denoting 

 the teeth of the lines. 



1 (?. 



Subfamily PLUTODINAE. 

 177. Plutodes connexa spec. nov. 



c?. Forewing: pale yellow and red-brown; the costal area above subcostal 

 vein yellow, with two rounded blotches depending from it and reaching median 

 vein, one at one-fourth, small, the other at <M)e-half, larger ; extreme liindmargin 

 and fringe yellow, more widely at apex and anal angle ; on the inner margin 

 beyond middle another roundeil yeUow blotch reacliing vein '2 ; the edge of the 

 brown area is ferruginous throughout ; the large brown blotch at liindmargin is 

 edged with a line of dull lustrous scales, and is traversed throughout by a dark 

 paler-edged waved submarginal shade, extending as a small jirojection to inner 

 margin before anal angle ; the fringe is tinged with brown between veins 3 and 4, 

 and slightly also below apex. 



Hindiviiig : with the Ijasal area red-brown, connected along vein 1 by a narrow 

 streak with the marginal blotch, which is irregularly crescentic, with a yellow 

 indentation at anal angle ; inner margin and fringe whitish. 



In the ? the dark areas are more extensive, and grey-brown in tint rather 

 than red-brown. 



Underside paler yellow, witli only the marginal blotches marked, and these 

 reduced in size, the other dark areas only showing througli. 



Face, thorax, and dorsum concolorous with the dark areas of the wings ; 

 shoulders, vertex, antennae, paljii beneath, pectus, legs, and underside of abdomen 

 yellow ; palpi above ferruginous-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : J, 34 mm. ; ? , 36 mm. 



1 c?, 1 ?. 



In the irregularity of outline of the marginal blotch tiiis species resembles 

 P. nilgirica Ilmpsn. 



