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two-fifths of the wing ; the orange colour appears in spots along the submedian and 

 median veins, and in larger blotches along the course of the subcostal vein ; there 

 is generally a more ample space of orange between veins 2 and 3 at their origin and 

 in the subcostal space above ; the apical area is also spotted with orange ; fringe 

 wholly smoky fuscous ; cell-spot large, always more or less obscured. 



llindwiiHjs : straw colour, with numerous coarse dark transverse striae, which 

 tend to become confluent only along the cell from the cell-spot to a dark curved 

 postmedian fascia formed of coalescent blotches ; hindmargin and fringe smoky 

 blackish, connected along the veins by diffuse patches of confluent striae. 



Underside of forcwings like upper, but the orange brighter and the dark tints 

 less smoky ; of hindwiugs bright cream-colour, with the spots browu-black and less 

 confluent. Paljii blackish ; face and vertex orange ; collar orange with two black 

 spots ; shoulders blackish, with orange between them ; patagia black, orange 

 internally ; abdomen orange, with rows of black spots ; legs black with all the 

 coxae orange. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



2 ? ? from C'nddapah (Kadapa), Residency of Madras. 



Subfamily BISTONINAE. 



20. Eubyja robustum Butler ab. albicoUis nov. 



Butler's types, S and ? , have both the wings and head of the same dull grey- 

 brown tint ; in a (? from Yokohama, while the central area of both wings and apical 

 area of forewings are whitish in ground coliiur, thickly speckled like the rest of the 

 wings with dark, the upper half of face and the whole breadth of the shoulders are 

 clear white. The third example in the B. M. Collection, also a i from Yokohama, 

 agrees with the present specimen in these respects ; whether this jialer form is 

 peculiar to the Yokohama district or not remains to be proved. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



21. Alcis nigrifumata sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale grey, towards base and beyond second line tinged with 

 ochreons, varied with fine black transverse striae, and, except at base and in the 

 central area before the second line, covered with a smoky black snlTusion ; cell-spot 

 black and large ; four large black diffnse blotches on costa at the origin of the lines, 

 the first two, basal and median, altogether lost in a black shade ; outer line marked 

 by black dashes on veins, ontcurved beyond cell, followed by a broad blackish shade, 

 extending more or less to hindmargin ; the submarginal line interrupted, but jilain ; 

 the antemedian and postmedian black sufi'usion imiting in a deeper black blotch 

 along inner margin ; marginal spots black ; fringe dark and light grey. 



Hindwings : with a smoky black straight bar from inner margin to middle of 

 cell before the black cell-spot ; a black slightly sinuate-dentate postmedian line not 

 reaching costa ; the marginal area be3'ond, except at apex, suffused with black, with 

 the submarginal line marked paler; marginal line black; fringe pale ochreou* 

 grey, chequered with darker. 



