.MILLEIMA. — AKJUDAS. 19 



veins; apex black; inttnveniiiL;' discal space wliitc. foiniinn: a lavije transverse oval patch. 

 Underside — fore wing pale fuliginous, streaks darker, waslied witli indigo-blue : hind wing 

 with base and apex fuliginous-black, washed with indigo-blne ; central patch wliite as above. 

 Front of head, vertex, and collar crimson ; thorax black ; abdomen black above, crimson 

 at tip and beneath, with a lateral and lower row of black spots ; palpi and legs black ; an- 

 tennae ste(>l-l)lu(-. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills. Tn coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to //. ranllans, AValk. {UheUulniiles, H. Sch. PI. 2. f. 13 2), but is a much larirer 

 insect, having longer wings, these being elongated as in //. papiUonaris. 



ficinis MILLERIA, Il.-Brh. 

 Mi/leriri. TT.-Srli. (Syn. Lmirinii, Walker, Catal. I.rp. Ilct. 1'.. M. ii. p. VIC>, 18.-)-k) 



MiLLERIA ALBIFASCIA, 11. SJ). 



Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown : lore wing crossed by a medial curved 

 oblique white band terminated on the costa on the inner side by a yellow sjiot : hind wing 

 with a rather large apical vellow spot. Underside as above, apex of both win<>s washed with 

 greyish-blue. Body, antennae, and legs pale metallic bluish-black. 



Expanse, ^ If inch, ? 1r inch. 



lldh. Chevra Punji, Assam. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Differs from M. circe, H.-Sch. Lep. Spec. Nov. pi. 1. f. 2. 1853, in being duller-coloured, 

 the oblique band on fore wing being white, and in the larger size of s])ot on costa of hind 



Family N Y CTEM EK I D.E. 



AllBT^DAS, nov, pen. 



Fore wing long, rather narrow, costa very .slightly arched, apex acute, exterior margin 

 short, posterior margin nearly of the same length as the costa ; costal vein arched at the 

 base; cell broad, long ; subcostal vein recurved, five-branched, first branch arising from 

 near end of cell, second trifurcatc and arising beyond cud of the cell, the outer fork starting 

 from below half the length of the middle fork ; discocellulars extending some distance within 

 the cell, angled at the upper and lower end, from the ujiper angle starts the radial ; median 

 vein recurved, four-branched, the upper branch starting from angle of the lower discocellular. 

 the next from lower end of the cell, the two lower branches at equal distance from near end 

 of the cell ; submedian vein curved upward and running near the median ; internal vein at 

 some distance from posterior margin. Hind wing long, anterior margin of the same length a? 

 posterior margin of fore wing, apex acute, exterior margin and anal angle very convex ; costal 

 vein running close to the margin, first branch of the subcostal vein starting before end of 



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