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55. Pharambara plnmbea spec. uov. 



ForeiniKj : glossy liliic-grey with ;i copijery tinge, crossed by vertical coppery 

 bands ; the basal and antemedian simply curved ; the postmediau strongly elbowed 

 outwards above middle ; these bands are edged with darker lines ; a dark sub- 

 marginal line is forked at each end and preceded by coppery patches ; the whole 

 wing is varied with transverse darker strigae ; costa at base dark jilninbcous ; fringe 

 glossy, concolorous. 



Himhring : with three coppery bands on a grey ground, basul, median, and 

 submarginal, roundly elbowed above middle and running parallel to each other. 



Underside the same, but the copper-red tints deeper and brighter ; a streak of 

 black and yellow scales along upper edge of cell and beyond. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all glossy ; the head, shoulders, and base of patagia 

 dark plumbeous ; the abdomen mixed with red. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ? from Darjiliug (Dr. Lidderdale). 



Distinguished from Phnr. cnreiliima AVarr. by the uniform coloration, wliereas 

 in curvilinea the costal half of forewing is mucli paler than the inner ; also 

 resembling Phar. reticulata Moore, but much smaller and with more regular lines 

 and bands. 



oG. Pharambara ruinosa sjiec. no v. 



Wings longer and narrower than in ./'. cittula Guen. {=.(>xusta liutl.) ; the 

 ground colour paler. 



Forewing : the basal two-thirds browner; basal and antemedian obscure brown 

 bands, the latter sometimes forked below median ; median band outwardly oblique 

 from costa and forming a sub(piadrate brown blotch at and below end of cell, very 

 narrow, almost interrupted between veins 3 and 2, thence reaching inner margin as 

 an oblong vertical blotch ; beyond it a subcostal quadrate brown blotch, from the 

 lower outer corner of which a curved line of brown striae runs to anal angle ; a 

 brown obli(pie band, bent at middle, from subcostal before apo.K to middle of outer 

 margin, running out into the pale brown fringe ; the whole wing with pale brown 

 reticulations. 



Ilindwing : with brown antemedian and median fasciae, the latter broad and 

 connected at middle with the former ; a thick brown marginal line. 



Underside like upi)cr, with the markings plainer, the median fascia of forewing 

 black-brown ; streaks of black and yellowish scales along upper edge of cell ; costa 

 with brownish triangles separated by pale ochreous intervals ; a chestnut-brown 

 subcostal streak in outer half of wing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : <S 30 mm. ; ? 35 mm. 



1 (?, 1 ?, Sikkim, 1887 (Pilcher). 



Distinguished from vittiila Guen. ( = (M-«.vte Butl.) by the irregular interrupted 

 median fascia and the square suljcostal blotch following it, as well as by the longer, 

 narrower wings ; vittula Gneu. was described from N. China, and exmta Butler 

 from Jajjan, and I have not seen this form from India. 



57. Pharambara sublucens spec. nov. 

 Forewing : pale stone-grey, with faint brownish strigulations ; costal edge with 

 eight deep chestnut-red spots, alternated with pairs of pearl-grey streaks ; the tirst 



