is :\Ir. Butlkk's descriptions of mtv species of 



costa t(i iuuev margiu ; tlie costal luirder fnnii base to the outer 

 edge ot Ihis belt fuliginous-l)rown barred with l»kick, thus re- 

 (hiciug the pale portion of the basal urea to a large oblique 

 jiateh ; external area brown, the apical portion ( Avhich occupies 

 nearly a third of the entire wing) whitish, Avith an oblique dark 

 l)rowu costal spot, and the lower half traversed by a subniarginal 

 scries i)f pale edged black spots ; a marginal series of smaller 

 black spots; fringe whity-lirown, spotted with blackish; sec(.)nd- 

 ariea Avhity-brown, with two indistinct arched dtisky discal 

 sti-ipes, the outer one, which is submarginal, rather broad 

 toAvards apex ; thorax dark sandy-brown, touched here and 

 there with darker broAVu, the tegukij crossed obhquely in the 

 centre by a blackish bar; antenuaj and abdomen dark purplish- 

 Ijrown: under surface sericeotis cream coloured ; primaries with 

 an indistinct spot at the end of the cell and a stripe l>eyoud it, 

 greyish; a small costal spot towards apex; costal border sandy- 

 yellowish, secondaries Avith a small indistinct dusky spot at the 

 end of the cell and a second larger one close to apex ; pectus 

 sandy-yellowish in front, anterior legs blackish above; venter 

 lakv-browii. Ex])anse of wings 33 mm. 

 Ankafana. 



SATUKNllD.i-:. 

 37. Bancea pluinicornis. n. sp. 



$ Form of B. alcinoe, but in pattern more like B. usIiukJ" 

 ■,[\id (iiosjji/fi ; wings deep purplish-brown; the disc crossed by 

 a narrow band of this colour, relieved by a broad diffused belt 

 of snow-white; the external border olivaceous shading into dull 

 yellowish- brown at the outer margins; primaries with the basal 

 two-thirds of the costal area broadly cream coloured, irrorated 

 (excepting at the 1)aso) with grey-brown scales; liasal area 

 (excepting the costal l)oi'der) dark lak\ -brown. bound(,'d above 

 and externally by an elbowed obli([ue white band ; immediately 

 l)eyoud the cell is a large subquadrate hyaline-white patch, 

 notched in front and almost touching the snow-white discal belt; 

 secondaries lake-red at base, this colour being bounded exter- 

 nally by a rather broad snow-Avhite band; centre of costal area 

 rose colour, interno-mcdlan area Avith a few rose-red hairs mixed 

 Avith the brown ones; a very large goldeu-orange ocellus, Avith 

 hyallne-Avhite pupil, black border and snow-Avhlte zone, over the 

 end of the cell ; the Avhite zone confluent Avith the white discal 

 l)elt ; bead and thorax dark pnr[)lish-lake ; antenna' very large, 

 strongly [iltinnise, black : abdomen sandy-brown, I'cdder at llie 



