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jiatcli between veins (1 ami 7 as well as between 7 and 8, by there being two 

 teiiuinai yelliiw jiatches in place of one white one, and in the whole hiudwing being 

 hyaline edged with brown, not merely the basal half. 



6. Differs from ? by having one tenuiiud spot only, and the hyaline patch 

 between veins 7 and 8 much smaller. 



Jhb. Wasbau, Wet^t China, OUUU ft., Jnly 18.>9 (A. E, Pratt). 



1 ? (type), o (? (J. 



25. Amata jankowskyi sp. nov. 



cj. Nearest to A. jiaaca Leech ; dilTers at iirst sight by its much shorter, 

 broader, and rounder wings. Pectus golden, not brown ; frons black, not golden ; 

 tegulae golden, not l)rown ; centre of thora.K deep brown, not goldeu ; a broad 

 orange baud eucircling base of abdomen, not a yellow dor.-;al spot only ; an 

 orange baud round last abdominal segment, which is wanting in pasca ; the 

 liyaline spots on forewing are more vitreous and white, not buff; more than 

 two-thirds of hindwing are hyaline. AutennaJ have only extreme tip white, 

 while in pasca two-fifths of the whole are white. 



?. Similar, but abdominal orange bauds are broader and the hyaline sj)ots 

 larger. 



Length of forewing: 6 ".,'3 mm. ; ? 24 mm. 



]Iah. Ichang, Yangtse-Kiang River, China (Captain Jaukowsky). 



2 66, 1 ?. 



2(). Amata flavolavata sp. nov. 



?. Nearest ..4. nuhtfiia \Vlk., but distinguishable at once by the last 

 abdominal segment being orange, and uot blue-black as in melactia and mclai'na 

 amlersoiii. Frons orange; tegulae and patagia orange; thorax black, orange 

 at hind edge : antennae entirely black ; abdomen bright orange with five black 



rings. Forewing hyaline orange-yellow, costal area between costal and subcostal 



nervures with basal three-fifths orange-yellow, area between vein 1 and inner 

 margin orange, a black patcli on discocellulars, apex and outer margin narrowly 



black, nervures black, veins -t and ;"> stalked. Hindwing hyaline orange-yellow, 



outer margin and nervures black. 



Ijcngth of forewing : 27 mm. 



Hab. Khasia Hills (Native coll.) (ex coll. H. J. Elwcs). 



1 ?. 



27, Amata simillima sp. nov. 



?. Allied closely to -1. /«/.s/^('/v^ W'll;., lint larger and njuch broader. Differs 

 in the hyaline markings (if forewings being more clothecl with sc.iles and 

 much larger, and the sjiot between veins 7 and 8 which is pn-seut in Ixisiiicra. 



being absent. Iliiidwings have only the base orange, and two very narrow 



hyaline streaks below and beyond cell. 



Length of forewing : lo'O mm. 



JJal). Pnio r.isa, north of Obi Island, Moluccas, September 1807 (W. Dulierty). 



I ?. 



28«. Amata basigera gilolensis subsp. nov. 



6. Differs from basigcra basigera in the two hyaline spots in the hindwing 

 being reduced so much as to be scarcely visible. 



