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Amorphogynia necessaria Zell. 

 /eller. who only knew the S , nt first considered this species only a variety 

 of hlrtaria, hut in 1849 he made it a distinct species. From a remark of Gueuee. 

 it would appear that Lederer also did not believe it to be distinct, until he himself 

 captured a ? , and then he agreed with Zeller's opinion. This ? is figured in the 

 Ann. S. Belff., 1865, PI. III., figs. 11, 12, and is, I ))elieve, the only ? known. 

 It would seem to have been given by Lederer to Zeller, and is now in the British 

 -Museum collection. To this specimen, contrary to his usual practice. Zeller had 

 affi.xed no label indicating the donor; but it is palpably the original from which the 

 figure in the 15elgian Annates was drawn, and must be considered the type ? . 

 Zeller's original <? tyjMj is labelled Kphesus. 



SUBFA.MILY ASCOTINAE. 

 Selidoseminae .Mcyr. part. Boarmidae .\uctores. 



Elphos albifascia sp. nov. 



Resembles proceWosa Warr., but, instead of the curved pale fascia of that species, 

 with a broad oblique white fascia stretching from the costa between the discal 

 spot and exterior line to the anal angle, the edges being somewhat irregular. 

 L'nder.side of both wings as in procellosa, but the forewings having the oblique 

 white fascia plainly marked. 



P^xpause of wings : cj ? , 90 mm. 



Two d (? from Gunong Ijau, and one ? from the Felder collection, said 

 to be from Assam ; also one ? from S. Celebes. 



Distinguished from procellosa by its oblique white fascia and larger size, but 

 belonging to the same group, in which the hindmargins of both wings are less 

 strongly denticulate. 



Elphos megaspilata sp. nov. 



Akin to E. pardicelata Wlk., but smaller ; all the markings much darker, while 

 the ground colour is whiter. The underside has the spots and black markings 

 larger and ampler ; and the underside of the hindwings is less mottled with grev. 



Four (J cJ from the Khasia Hills. 



It may, perhaps, be only a local form o{ pardicelata Wlk. 



Elphos moesta sp. nov. 



Wings whoilv dull smoky slate colom-. with yellow scales and mottlings inter- 

 spersed ; all the lines blackish edged with paler slate colour. Underside as in 

 ■procellosa Warr., but with still le.^s white showing on the forewing, along the costa, 

 and in the disc, and there much mottled with smoky grey. 



Exi)anse of wings: 84 mm. 



One cf from Gunong Ijau. 



Elphos obliterata sp. nor. 

 5 . Wings white, mottled with fuscous and dull yellowish ; transverse lints as in 

 the allied species, the first preceded by a clear white space, the second with nearly 

 all the upper two-thirds olliteiated, the white ground colour forming a broad fascia 



