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Hinchring : the same. 



Underside pale pearl-grey, with the reticulations olive-fuscous ; the costal 

 and ai)icivl areas of t'orewing are usually browner. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all blackish, like wings. 



Exjianse of wings : (S 32 mm. ; ? 36 mm. 



2c?J', 2 ?? from Biagi, Mambare River, British New Guinea, ri,()ijO feet, 

 April 1906 (A. S. Meek). 



Distinguished from all the forms whose Sd have hyaline spots or patches in 

 the wings by the Jc? being as densely clothed as the ? ¥. 



4. Banisia illustrata spec. nov. 



Forewing : semi-transparent ochreous, the veins and reticulations rufous; the 

 costa broadly, inner margin below vein 1, and nearly the basal half of wing 

 chocolate-browQ ; a slight oval pale space on submedian interval within the 

 browu area ; from the costal streak beyond middle two irregular teeth give rise to 

 brown lines ; that from the outer tooth running to below middle of outer margin 

 and above vein 6 emitting a spur to meet one from the inner tooth ; from their 

 junction a brown line runs to an oblong brown blotch at anal angle : from the 

 inner tooth another line runs to a similar blotch at two-thirds of inner margin ; 

 fringe ochreous, chequered with brown. 



Hindwinq : with three narrow interrupted and ramifying browu bands, the 

 second ending in a large blotch beyond middle of inner margin, the third forking 

 to anal angle and outer margin ; apical area brown to middle of outer margin. 



Underside much paler ; costa of forewing pale chocolate-brown ; the ante- 

 median and postmedian fasciae of forewing in their lower halves, and the costal 

 streaks of hindwing rich black-brown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all chocolate-brown. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 ? from Mount Tahan, Malay Peninsula (W^aterstradt). 



5. Banisia lepida spec. nov. 



Forewing: shining whitish ochreous, crossed by pale olive-brown bands; the 

 basal vertical, with straight outer edge ; antemedian vertical, narrow at costa and 

 swollen below; postmedian forked narrowly at costa, then much swollen, forked 

 again below middle, the inner arm broad, running to two-thirds of inner margin, 

 with a slight angle inwardly on median vein and outwardly on vein 2, the outer 

 arm outcurved and much narrowed, sometimes interrupted, ending in a triangular 

 rufous blotch, the sides of which are at anal angle and end of vein 2 ; a narrow 

 subapical brown line from costa to end of vein 4, sometimes, but rarely, forming a 

 fork at costa with the preceding costal blotch; the whole faintly strigulated ; 

 fringe brown. 



Hindwing : sntl'used witli pale rufous, the costal area remaining jiale ochreous ; 

 median and postmedian double lines rising each from a [}oiut on vein 6, sometimes 

 confluent laterally ; a single brown subapical line. 



Under.^ide pale fulvous, with the lines and bauds deeper fulvous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen shining pale ochreous ; palpi and forelegs fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 33 to 44 mm. 



1 S, Waterfall Valley, Penang, July 1898 (Curtis) ; 3 SS, Pura, October l.s91 

 (Doherty); 1 cJ, Borneo; 1 J, Lombok, June 1896 (Everett); 1 J, Upper Palembang 



