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before fringe above vein f) ; a few dark dots and strigae in tlie basal half ; fringe 

 coucolorons. 



lUmhving : with the smoky brown band continued across wing to inner margin 

 above anal angle, broader and with a darker central stripe ; rest of wing i)ale 

 ochreons fawn; the fringe rather deejier fawn. 



Underside nmcli dnller ; firewing with a inirjdish grey flush beyond middle ; 

 striae more prominent, especially iu hiudwing, wliich sliows no trace of the dark 

 band. 



Head and shoulders deep chestnut-brown ; thorax and abdomen pale greyish 

 ochreons ; base of anal segment with a brown blotch. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



2(?c?from the Khasia Hills. 



14. Dohertya submicans spec. nov. 



Differs from f>. astradora Meyr. by the absence of the paler intervals between 

 the dark bands, the whole surface of both wings being leaden fuscous. 



Foreicinij : crossed by fonr dark lines, subbasal, antemedian, postmedian, and 

 outer, and a short submarginal line to middle of outer margin ; all the intervals 

 crossed by parallel lines of dots ; at end of cell a dull dark cloud containing some 

 brown scales, as if burnt ; fringe fuscous. 



Hindwiny : with the outer lines only. 



Underside of forewing with the markings as in astradora, but the brown ones 

 more developed ; a bed of black and metallic scales iu cell, and a streak of black 

 scales along subcostal vein beyond cell ; hiudwing shining whitish, crossed by 

 rows of sharp black striae between the veins, here and there marked with brown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



2 (J J from Dorei, Dutch New Guinea, June 1807 (W. Doherty). 



15. Draconia accipitrina spec. nuv. 



Forewing: whitish, the veins and reticulations pale brown, the bands dark 

 brown ; basal tliird suffused with brown ; a broad oblique fascia from middle of 

 inner margin and a conical blotch from anal angle brown, the two uniting above 

 vein 5 and reaching the costa as a narrow band at two-thirds ; the whitish areas, 

 wliicli are semihyaline, are therefore a narrow oblique band lietwecn basal ]iatch 

 and central fascia rea(!liing as far as subcostal vein, anil a broader one beyond the 

 fascia reaching vein 5 ; there are also three roundish hyaline spots beyond the joint 

 fasciae between veins 4 and 7, edged outwardly by black spots which are continued 

 towards costa; apex whitish, traversed by a brown streak along vein 8, which joins 

 at right angles a brown costal sj)ot, from which a brown line, interrui)ted by the 

 veins, runs to near outer margin on vein 4 ; fringe dark brown, with jiale tips and 

 deeper brown beyond the veins. 



Hind wing : with the base only narrowly brown : the double fascia as in 

 forewing, but its central area narrower ; the ajiical area with more numerous 

 hyaline spots, traversed by a curved brown streak from three-fourths of co.sta to 

 a brownish cloud at middle of outer margin ; submarginal line more interrupted ; 

 the ape.\ not white. 



Underside with the basal areas and the fasciae dark brown and distinct ; the 

 rest of both wings pale fawn-colour, the veins not brown, 



