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median and submedian ; a xtill larger white blotch in the disc beyond the cell, which 

 in the S is I'ound externally with a small black indentation on its inner edge; while 

 in the ? it is broken up into three oblong blotches, the centre much the largest, by 

 the black scales on the third median nervule and upper radial ; a subterminal series 

 of seven oblong white spots in the (J, much smaller, except the lowest, in the ? ; the 

 <S has also a thin cm-ved white line above the lowest spot, which is wanting in the ?. 

 Hindwings white with a broad black margin, containing six squarish white spots, 

 which are likewise much reduced in the ? ; the extreme base and the costa black ; 

 in the ? a blackish blotch on the interior margin, and another above the end of cell, 

 with the veins spotted with black between them. Head and face yellow ; thorax 

 black spotted with yellow; base of patagia yellow, their tips black : abdomen yellow, 

 with black rings, and black spots between the segments. Underside like upper, but 

 the black duller. The wings of the ? are broader and darker altogether than those 

 of the <S ; in the ¥ the hindmargin of the forewing is convex, in the c? straight. 



Expanse of wings : ? , 60 mm. ; cJ, 50 mm. 



Three specimens from South Celebes. 



Percnia confusa sp. nov. 



Forewings white, slightly tinged with yellowish towards the base ; markings 

 consisting of grey spots and blotches, sometimes confluent, sometimes distinct ; 

 costa at base grey tinged, with three oblii[ue blotches, tending to form interrupted 

 lines across wing, but broken in the middle; a round discal spot, in the ? separate, 

 in the c? united with a central costal blotch ; exterior line indicated by an irregularly 

 geminated curved series of grey spots, more or less confluent., and broader on costa 

 and inner margin ; hindmargin and fringes grey, with a white indentation in 

 the middle; the lower half in the ? less confluent. Hindwings the same, but tlie 

 whole basal half white. Underside like upper, but the grey markings rather larger. 

 Face ochreous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous, spotted with black ; the former 

 partially suffused with yellowish. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



One (?, one ?, from India, without exact locality. 



Metabraxas clerica Butler inconfusa ^\■arr. subsp. nov. 

 Two (? cJ in the Hothschild collection : one from Chang-yang, the other from 

 Thibet, deserve to be separated as a variety. In them the exterior double row of 

 spots is distinct throughout, not running into one another, or suffused ; while in 

 the hindwings the intermediate series of the three rows of spots along the margin, 

 which in the type form from Japan is always more or less irregular, and blotched, 

 consists of regular spots, placed precisely in the intervals between those of the outer 

 and inner rows ; and in the Thibet specimen is not only very faint above, but quite 

 absent on the under surface. Both specimens have in consequence a much neater 

 and regular appearance than the type form, which is always blurred. They, in 

 fact, approach the Indian species, regularis \\'arr. 



Xenoplia gen. nov. 



Intermediate between Mdnliriuya Biider and Percnia Guen. ; distinguished 

 by the S antennae, which are armed with short oblique fascicles of cilia, which are 

 themselves also finely ciliated, or pubescent laterally. 



Type : X. fwaria Guen. (Percnid). 



