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line to hindmargiu along the median ; cell-spot large, Mackish ; a marginal row of 

 black dashes ; fringe cheqnered ochreons and fuscons. 



Hindwhiffs : whitish, tinged with yellowish, with sparse fuscons strigae ; cell- 

 spot large, dark ; a fuscons postmedian line from inner margin above anal angle to 

 lower angle of cell ; marginal area fuscons, much broken up by the paler ground- 

 colour. 



Underside the same, but duller. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, speckled 

 with fuscous ; metathorax with a tuft of metallic scales. 



Exj)anse of wings : 24 mm. 



A pair from the Khasias, May 1896. 



The cell half as long as wing. Superficially this insect is extremely like my 

 (lentilinea, wrongly referred to Psilalcis, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 431, but tlic neuration 

 differs, and the outer line does not approach the inner. 



189. Chiasmia radiata sp. uov. 



Fore.whigs : straw-colour, tinged with ochraceons ; covered with black transverse 

 strigae, whicli tend to become laterally confluent, the ground-colour only sho^ving as 

 a curved inner band at one-fourth and an oblique irregularly edged band at three- 

 fonrths ; the central fascia contains a large dark cell-spot, and is edged, especially 

 externall}', by a line of dark spots on the veins, those on costa and inner margin 

 being blotches; marginal third black, broken up by two radiating streaks of ground- 

 colour from the outer band — one oblique to apex, the other below vein 4 — and by 

 the interrupted snbmarginal line, so that there are formed two costal blotches, the 

 outer one quite small, a central triangular blotch, and a square blotch at anal angle ; 

 fringe straw-colour, chequered with black, and almost wholly black beyond the base 

 of the triangular blotch. 



Hindwings : the same, but without the dark base, the central fascia blacker, the 

 outer area interrupted in the middle only. 



Uuilerside similar, but darker. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, intermixed 

 with blackish, especially at base and apex of abdomen. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



A pair from the Khasias, May 1896. 



Subfamily BRACCINAE. 



Arycanda Wlk. VII. p. 1775 (1856). 



This generic name must supersede Guen^e's Panaetkia, published a year later. 

 Type : Arijcanda maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra. 



19(1. Arycanda absorpta sp. nov. 



Like A. maculosa Wlk. from Sumatra : Imt the marginal row of black streaks 

 all separated from each other by tlie jjaler veins, not blotelied at the aj)ex ; the 

 central streak bent outwards and absorbing the cell-spot. 



One ? from Lawas, North Borneo (A. Everett). 



An example from Nias, also a ? , is paler blue than the Bornean insect ; tlie 

 central streak is still more strongly bent, and on the underside the cell-spot is quite 

 distinct, with two Mack liands on each side, whereas in absorpta it is still adjacent 

 to the bent band. 



