Go 2 Colonel C. Swinhoe on 



Abraxas granulifcra, Warr., 1. c. 



Type ^ , Sambalun, LoiiiLok, in coll. llotliscliikl. 

 Type (conflucntaria $), Arjuno, Java, in ditto. 



The two last aie undoubtedly one and the same species, 

 and I cannot see how the first can be separated fntrn them ; 

 thei'e are two in the B. M. from Arjuno, identical with 

 granulifcra, and another differing from all three. 



Abraxas nebularia. 



Abraxas picaria var. ncbularia, Leech, Ann. Mag. N. H. 



(6), xix, p. 447 (April 18!)7). 

 Abraxas scmiturjjis, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 800 (August 



1897). 



Type, Ta-tsien-lu, W. Chhia, in B. M. 

 Type {semiturpis $), Omeishan, W. China,, in coU. 

 Bothschild. 



A variable form, but quite distinct from j^fmrm, Moore, 

 from India. 



Abraxas triseriaria. 



Abraxas triseriaria, Herr-Schaff., Samml. Ausser. Schmett, 



f. 822 (1850). 

 Potcra marcjinata, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 8.52, pi. 53, 



f. 9. 

 Fotcra intcrvaciuda, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 81)0 (1890). 



Herrich-Schaffer's type came from Java. 



Type {marginata), Moolai in Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 Type {intervacuata $ ), Mt. Mulu, N. Borneo, in coll. 

 Rothschild. 



There are eleven examples from Burma, Java, and 

 Sumatra, all varying a little. 



CiSTIDIA CHINENSIS, nov. 



(J $ . Anteniice black, head and body dark orange ochreous, 

 tliorax suffused with black, leaving merely tlie fore part ochreous, 

 abdomen with large segmental bands above, below, and at the sides, 

 but disconnected from each other ; wings black with dull Avhite 

 squarish spots ; fore-wings with a large one below the origin of vein 

 2, one a little smaller at the end of the cell, with two white streaks on 

 the costa above it, an outwardly curved row of discal spots, some short 



