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Walker's Scopelodes unicolor was evidently believed to be West- 

 wood's species, from the fact that it is nearly unicolorous : it occurs 

 at Silhet and Moulmein ; the var. y of Walker's description, from , 

 Ceylon, being a much rubbed example of Moore's S. aurogrisea, and 

 in place of Walker's " Fore-wings with a broad, diffuse, slightly paler 

 band," it should have been noted that the " Fore-wings are much 

 rubbed in the centre." I propose to call S. unicolor^ of Walker, by 

 the name of S. testacea ; as it is distinct from S. unicolor, of West- 

 wood, which we have from Java, and which also is quite distinct from 

 the much commoner S. palpalis. 



Scopelodes testacea, n. sp. jTte 



Scopelodes unicolor, Walker (nee Westwood), Lep. Het., 5, p. 

 1104. n. 1 (1855). 



Primaries and thorax shining brownish-testaceous ; secondaries pale shining 

 golden-ochreous, with white-tipped fringe ; palpi greyish, with a white sub-apical i 

 band and black tip ; abdomen deep ochreous, with two or three dorsal dots and the i ojj,, 

 anal segment black : expanse of wings, 72 mm. 



Silhet and Moulmein. Type, B. M. I jstr 



S. unicolor is represented in the Museum by two specimens, rather ilieco 

 smaller than that from which Westwood's description was taken : the 

 primaries and body are of a shining golden-testaceous colour, and the 

 secondaries whitish- testaceous ; the fringe of all the wings white j^*''' 

 the palpi with a white band near the tips ; the abdomen, as described 

 by Westwood, has a dorsal series of black tufts or " short bands," and 

 the tarsi are tipped with black ; S. palpalis, on the other hand, has . 

 shining, foxy-red, primaries and thorax, and deep ochreous secondaries 

 and abdomen ; the fringes of the wings being tipped with silvery- 

 white ; the abdomen with dorsal bars and anal segment black. 



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DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF COCYTIA. 



BY HERBERT DRUCE, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., &c. 



CoCYTIA ElBB^I, sp. n. 

 Primaries and secondaries bluish -hyaline ; the black external borders of the; 

 male narrow, as in C. chlorosoma ; in the female the borders are much broader, th^ Kifen 

 intermediate streaks shorter than in C. Durvillei. The primaries without the sub-i »tto, 

 basal orange patch common to all the other described species. The thorax an^ 

 abdomen light bluish metallic-green, except the anal segments, which are black. Otfi-aoj 

 the under-side the orange-coloured patch is present, as in C. Durvillei. mt.\]^ 



Expanse, (J , 3 in. ; ? , 34 in. J 



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