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and streaks with dark-browii-spccklcd bonleis: hiudwitif^ cinereous-brown. Cilia cinereous- 

 white. Body pale green-brown; thorax with white bands; abdomen dark-speckled. 



Expanse -i\ to 1^0 inch. 



Ilab. Dharmsala (7). Powell, Ilockinrj) ; Calcutta {Atkinson). In coll. !•'. Moore, 

 Kev. H. Hocking, and Dr. Staudinger. 



Bankia basalis, d. sp. 



Fore wing pale ochreous-brown, basal third of tlie wing obliquely white; a postmedial 

 oblique white line terminating in two black dots forming the reuitbrm mark, above winch 

 is a short white outwardly-obli(iue streak fi-om the costa ; on the disk from tlie a|iex to 

 posterior angle are some short longitudinal black streaks which are interrui)tedly bordereil 

 with wliite ; a marginal black line with white inner border: hind wing cinereous-brown. 

 Cilia cinereous-white. Thorax white, collar brown-streaked ; abdomen cinereous-wliitc, 

 brown-si)eckled ; palpi speckled and tarsi banded with brown. 



Expanse -fjj inch. 



Ilrth. Darjiling {Atkinson) ; Shanghai {Pri/cr). In coll. Dr. Staudinger and V. Moore. 



Bankia oiiLu^uAj n. sp. 

 Bankia obliqua, Van M. D. Ilioy, MS. 



Male and female. Fore wing cupreous-brown, basal third and an oblique band from 

 middle of the costa to posterior angle, pure white ; a black dot at base of wing : hind wing 

 cinereous-brown. Thorax and head white ; front and collar brown-speckled ; palpi brown ; 

 tarsi with brown bands ; abdomen cinereous-brown. 



Expanse, 6 -iV, $ ra ^"^h. 



Hal). Dharmsala [Hocking), Kaschmir, Ch^n^xo. [Atkinwn). In coll. Rev. H. Hocking 

 and Dr. Staudinger. 



Family ERIOPID.E. 



Genus CALLOPISTRIA. 



Callopistria, Ilubncr, Verz. bck. Schmctt. p. 21G (1816). 

 Lagopus*, Latr. N. Diet. 11. N. xvii. p. 199 (1816?). 

 Eriopus, Trcitschke, Schmett. Em-, v. 1, p. 365 (1825). 



Fore wing acuminate at the apex ; exterior margin oblique, angular in the middle ; 

 scalloped ; first subcostal emitted at half length of the cell, second close to end of the cell, 

 tliird and fourth at nearly equal distances apart from base of second, fifth from end of trie 



• Previously used as a genus of Birds. 



