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6G. Chirosa punicea sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperaide: both wings dark prune coloured brown with i)urple reflexions. 

 Anterior wings with the apical and outer marginal area paler prune, irrorated 

 between the median nervides with whitish scales; towards the apex is an ohliciue row 

 of three small spots, the middle spot indistinct. On the posterior wnngs the costal 

 region is pale, the central area darkest, growing paler towards the outer margin. 



Underside brown, tinged with prune colour. Anterior wings darkest in the middle, 

 a small sjrot in the cell, three spots beyond in a row underneath each other, the lowest 

 the largest and ovate, across the ape.x the three spots are as on the ujiperside with 

 an additional small spot below them between the lowest discoidal and upper median 

 ner\ules. Posterior wings with a sjiot in the cell, and beyond it a row of six spots 

 ciuving round it ; the wings are darkest across the disc towards the apex. 



Expanse of wings : 3 inches. 



One male only. 



()7. Chirosa bruno sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside brown, with a faint purple reflexions, paler towards the apex 

 and outer margins. Anterior wings with the apical jiale area centred with a row of 

 seven or eight indistinctly marked pinkish white spots commencing between the 

 second and third subcostal nervules, and curving in a line following the outer margin. 



Underside : anterior wings with a spot in the cell and three beyond it, as in 

 Prunosa ; the subapical row of spots is more distinctly marked than on the npjierside. 

 Posterior wings with a spot in the cell and five spots beyond it, and two minute spots 

 between the discoidal nervules, two naiTOw grey lines in the fringe between each vein. 



FE^L\LE. — Upperside resembles the male, but is somewhat paler. On the anterior 

 wings the subapical row of spots on the male is represented by six spots all larger and 

 more distinct, except the third, which is minute. The basal Iwo-lhirds of the wings 

 are darker, and in certain lights suffused with purple. 



Underside differs from the same sex of C. tenebrosa in the subapical cluster of 

 white .sjjots on the anterior wings, and on the posterior wings in the absence of the 

 two submarginal rows of .spots in C. tenebrosa, and the fringe is marked with narrow 

 white lines. 



Expanse of wings : 2| inches. 



A good series of both se.xes. The species is very near to U. tenebrosa and C. 

 punicea. 



68. Chirosa lugoibris sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside : both wings brown. The posterior wings paler above the 

 costal uervure, and beyond the middle to the outer margin. The brand short as in 

 G. morosa and in the same position. 



Underside duller and less rufous brown than in C. iiiorosd, Butl. Anterior wings 

 with the inner marginal area beyond the submedian ner\ure jiale slate brown, a spot 

 in the cell and three beyond it as in C morosa, but the upper spot is very minute 

 and the lowest is smaller than the middle spot, and round, not elongate, outwardly 

 as in that species; the brand is represented by a small dusky spot, and two minute 

 spots cross the wings near the apex. Posterior wings with the spot in the cell and 

 ftve spots beyond it as in C. nuorusa, a submarginal row of three spots towards the 



