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with tlie hollow in the middle of the outer edge filled ii]) with pale luteons instead 

 of white, with two whitish dots, sometimes faintly marked, at the lower outer end, 

 but general!}' with all the white dots absent ; the terminal area beyond the Inteous 

 subterminal line always darker. 



Iliiichcitx/ : dark reddish brown, with terminal blackish hmnles ; the fringe 

 rnfoiis orlireons, tingeil with fuscous. 



Underside of forewing deep velvety liiaek-brown, with the costal anil terminal 

 margins reddish ; hind wing ochreou-;, the costa speckled with reddish ; cell-spot 

 and outer line prominently blackisli. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. 



1 ?, 3 cJcf from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras ; 1 ? from Ceylon. 



The ab. unifonnis is more uniformly red-brown, without the fuscous suffusion 

 or darker blotches ; the claviform and the space between upper stigmata being also 

 red-brown ; the lunule on outer edge of reniform dull yellow ; the snbterrainal 

 line more precise ; the fringe of hindwing pure rufous. 



2 SS from Ceylon. 



65. Prospalta ochrisquamata spec. uov. 



Forewing : dull olive brown, faintly red-tinged, and sprinkled with pale 

 ochreous scales ; a patch of ochreous scales on inner margin near base, and an 

 ochreons spot at base of submedian interval ; the costa marked by small ochreous 

 dots at origin of lines ; inner line sometimes denoted by jiale dots on the veins, often 

 obsolete ; outer line lunulate-dentate, blackish, the teeth marked by sligl)t ochreons 

 dots on veins, the Inunles sometimes followed by a few ochreous scales, that above 

 vein 5 always by an ochreous spot ; spots of the two outer rows whiter and irregular 

 in shape, those of the subterminal row on each side of vein 5 and on submedian fold 

 larger and diffuser ; a black lunnlate line along termcn swollen into black spots 

 between the veins ; fringe blackish with ochreous spots at base and intersected by 

 ochreons rays ; orbicular stigma oblique, with reddish centre outlined with ochreous 

 scales ; reniform with an ochreous lunule at centre and interrupted ])unctu!ate 

 ochreous outline, showing, when complete, four dots internally and three externally, 

 with a lunule between. 



Ili/idiciny : luteons ochreous in basal half, brownisii fuscous in outer, with dark 

 lunnlate terminal line and pale ochreous fringe. 



Underside glossy ochreous in basal half, the costa liroadly sprinkled witli red 

 scales ; forewing with dark grey celi-spot, outer waved line and fuscous baud before 

 subterminal line; hindwing with cell-spot, outer line, and dark terminal band. 



Face and vertex ochreous with black bars ; jialpi ochreous internally and in 

 front, black externally ; shoulders and patagia brown ; thorax and metathoracic tnft 

 ochreous, the latter with a double black line in front near base; dorsum grey-brown, 

 more ochreous below ; pectus and legs fuscous grey ; tibiae black with ochreous 

 rings. 



Expanse of wings : 4(1 mm. 



1 (S,:i ? ? from the Khasia Hills, Assam, the S dated September 1895. 



I'll!. Prospalta praesecta s])ec. nov. 



Foreiri/it/ : brown-black glossed with jiurple ; subba^^al and inner lines 

 unmarked, except by a few pale scales on veins ; a fine black streak from base 

 along submedian fold, containing a deep yellow spot, and ending in a long elliptical 



