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One ? from the Nilgiris, among /a8cirtrtrt, from Mr. Lindsey's collection ; smaller 

 than the ordinary ? ? of that species, and slightly larger than the S6. It may 

 ]irove to be distinct when more examples are compared. 



Abraxas ( ? ) concinna sp. uov. 

 Forewings chalk white, with dark grey markings, which are slightly tinged wth 

 reddish brown ; basal third irregularly filled with greyish markings, giving a generally 

 mottled appearance, especially towards the costa, bounded by a darker cm\ed band 

 consisting of iiTegular shaped blotches, that on the costa the largest, subquadrate ; a 

 smaller one beneath it in the middle roundish ; central area pure white, followed lay 

 two curved bands of small round greyish sjwts, the second of which forms a larger 

 irregular dark blotch in the middle of the wing : apical area and space at the anal 

 angle more or less filled up with dark grey ; between them a white unsuifused blotch 

 in the middle beyond the dark blotch of the second line of .spots; subterminal line 

 whitish, distinct, denticulated across the dark upper and lower gi-ey suffusion ; fringes 

 dark grey, except the small .space at the outside of the whitish patch, which also 

 remains white. Hindwings like forewings, but with the anal angle only suffused with 

 grey ; fringe white, narrowly marked with dark grey at the ends of the veins, and 

 with a series of broad contiguous grey lunules at the ba.se. Head, palpi, and antennae 

 dark grey ; face narrowly white ; thorax grey mottled with whitish ; abdomen 

 yellowish, with black dor.sal blotches. Underside like upper ; jiectus and abdomen 

 beneath yellow ; legs yellow ; the first and second pair much suffused with blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



One (? from Thibet. 



The species may be easily recognised by the very neat and symmetrical grey 

 markings; it does not seem closely allied to anv other species. 



Abraxas membranacea .-p. nov. 



Wings very translucent, glossy, thinly scaled ; the veins yellowish ; the whole 

 wings exceedingly pale greyish ochreous ; extreme base and costa of forewings 

 greyish ; a faint grey discal spot, and be^-ond it an indi.stinct sinuous grey line ; 

 fringe slightly darker. Hindwing entirely without markings. Head, face, collar, 

 and thorax yellow ; jiatagia whitish ; abdonen pale mouse colour, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings : 30 to 38 mm. 



A pair from Oinainissa. 



The consistency of the wings recalls Xudnria mundana. 



Veniliodes gen. nov. 



Resembles Zerenojjsis and Blplychis ; but the apex of both wings is more 

 pointed; the hindmargin less oblique; the wings themselves broader in proportion; 

 the antennae of the S are shortly, but stoutly, pectinated ; hind tibiae not 

 thickened; discocellular with the lower arm only slightly oblique. 



Type : Veniliodes pantheraria Feld. (LutuHspiiis). 



Veniliodes inilauimata >p. nov. 

 ^^'ings deep tawny yellow ; markings black ; a large sjiot at the base ; an 

 oblique basal fascia formed by two spots, one co,stal, vertically oblique; the other 

 on the submedian fold laterally elongated; at one-third of the costa an oblicjue 



