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Ilindwings : white, with uo markings except the rednced aiifil patch : fringe 

 white. 



Underside : forewings, costa grey ; a submarginal row of dark grey spots on 

 veins parallel to liindmargin, and a black cell-Llotch qnadrisected by the white 

 discocellnlar and lower radial; a small group of grey atoms at middle of hindmargin : 

 hindwings with only the snbmarginal row of spots. 



Face and forelegs dark grey; shoulders yellow, with a pair of black spots on 

 each ; thorax fnlvons and grey; abdomen pale yellow, with dorsal and lateral rows 

 of dark spots. 



Expanse of wings : 45 mm. 



One 6 from the Khasias, February 1897. 



67. Abraxas fnmicolor sp. nov. 



Forewings : wholly dark smoky fuscous, with no trace of yellow freckling. 



Hinchvings : slightly paler. 



Underside dull smoky grey. 



Head, tliorax, abdomen, and legs all smoky fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 45 mm. 



One c? from Ootacamund, Nilgiris. 



Subfamily BISTONINAE. 



68. Hemerophila aborta sp. nov. 



Forewings : brown, suffused and striated with black-brown ; the costa with very 

 fine ochreons and black strigae ; an ill-defined blackish subcostal streak; lines black, 

 slender ; first from costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, bluntly (not, as 

 usually is the case in this genus, acutely) angled on the subcostal and median veins, 

 preceded by a blackish shade ; cell-spot black, large, and diffuse : second line from 

 costa at five-sixths, acutely angled outwards on vein 7, then oblique and irregularly 

 sinuous to inner margin beyond middle, followed by a thick blackish shade ; 

 submarginal line indistinct ; a black festooned marginal line ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwings : with only the outer line and shade, the latter containing a black 

 blotch beyond the cell ; a small dark cell-spot. 



Underside grey-brown, freckled with dark and light atoms; the cell-spots black, 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; lower part of face and vertex more ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One (? from Kampala, Uganda, January 1807, dry season (Dr. Ansorgc). 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 

 60. Alcis contortilinea Warr. ab. simplex nov. 



The insect described in Nov. Zool. IV. p. 245, and figured on PI. V. tig. 10, 

 will, I think, prove to be a very strongly marked example of a generally much 

 more ordinary-looking species. A c? from Bopoto, Congo, which almost certainly 

 belongs to the same species, has no black markings, all the lines being merely 

 fuscous ; the ground-colour whitish, thickly speckled with olive-ochreous ; the 

 underside of forewings smoky fuscous, of hindwings dull wliitish. 



