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57. Catena subalbata spec. nov. 



Forewiiig : white, speckled, and along costa and hiudmavgin snffused with 

 olive-grey ; basal patch hardly defined, grey tinged, crossed by three series of spots 

 on veins, tlic limiting line and the one preceding it starting from blackish costal 

 s])ot8 ; median sliade starting as a dark spot jnst before middle, embracing the 

 cloudy round black cell-spot, and ending in a grey sjiot before middle of inner 

 margin, interrupted between ; outer line double, at two-thirds, excurved parallel 

 to hindmargin, the inner arm marked by grey veia-sjiots, the onter consisting of 

 grey Innnles ; the whitish submarginal line preceded by a row of dark grey partially 

 confluent spots between the veins, and followed by olive-grey blotches on the veins, 

 paling to margin ; marginal spots black and large ; fringe grey. 



Hindicing : similar, but withont basal markings ; cell-spot round, large, olive- 

 grey, preceded by an interrupted median line. 



Underside white, unspeckled ; forewing with a])ical third smoky black, the 

 apex slightly and a spot on margin below vein 4 more distinctly whitish ; cell-spot 

 large and black ; costa marked by black spots at the beginning of the lines ; base 

 greyish ; hindwing with grey cell-spot, and jiartial grey submarginal line, inter- 

 ru])ted below middle ; marginal lunules conspicuous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white varied with olive-grey ; tips of shoulders, 

 outside of palpi, and forelegs blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 cJ from Dili, N.E. Sumatra. 



58. Chogada alienaria ab. nigrifasciata uov. 



Central area of both wings pnre white with slight grey or brown scaling ; the 

 two arms of inner line filled in, sometimes very broadly, with velvety brown-black ; 

 outer line followed by a deep velvety black band diffused outwardly and partially 

 obliterating submarginal Hue. 



Underside of both wings with a broad black submarginal fascia limited inwardly 

 by the outer line ; the cell-spots largo aud black, and the inner band of forewing 

 showing through. 



1 (?, 1 ? from Diyatalawa, Ceylon, 4:i()i)ft., October— December 19Ul (Fiudlay); 

 received with numerous examples of the ordinary type form. 



69. Chogada decisaria ab. nigristigma nov. 



Of six examples, all of sandy grey coloration, of drrisaria Wlk. (= Uchenina 

 Butler, — calUciosm Meyr.), two represent a form different from any hitherto 

 described, having the ocelloid spot of both wings developed into a diffuse round 

 smoky black blotch. For these the above name is proposed. They were all taken 

 December 1903 by A. S. Meek, on the north side of Choisenl Island, Solomons. 



Siin-AMiLY SELIDOSEMINAE. 



ii'». Uranodoxa longicornis ab. maculata uov. 



Smaller than typical lonyicornU Butler, and apparently darker, as all three ? ? 

 which I have seen are as dark, at all events in the forewing, as the c? c? of the type 

 form ; they are distinguished at once by two bright yellow lunules placed on the 



