BY L. B. PROUT. 189 



60. Brabika emerita sp. n. 



cf 28-34 mm. 



Head and body concoloroiis with wings ; collar slightly 

 brighter ; abdomen with irregular, interrupted black longitudi- 

 nal markings snbdorsally and laterally, stronger anteriorly 

 than posteriorly. Fore leg partly blackened, with pale rings 

 at middle and end of tibia and ends of tarsal joints. Palpus 

 almost 2. Antennal pectinations very slender and twisted. 



Fore ^A^ng rather broad, costa slightly arched, termen long, 

 very oblique, slightly curved; light brown, nearly as in 

 athinftovii Moore, or slightly less ochreous ; four black-grev 

 spots on costa. the first two I'ather near together, with 

 ill-defined grey lines or shades (subbasal and intermediate* 

 arising from them, the third and fourth strong, at (just 

 inside) the boundaries of the median area ; antemedian and 

 postmedian lines urey. irregularly dentate, the antemedian 

 oblique but less so than termen, the postmedian strongly oblique 

 outward from costal spot to cellule 6. nearly parallel with 

 antemedian to cellule -S. then parallel with termen; a slight 

 reddish-grey suffusion in median area ; cell-dot rather large, 

 slightly elongate ; a vague median line outbent beyond it ; 

 area beyond postmedian palest on the veins, traversed by a 

 faint dentate line ; subterminal much as in athiyisonii . placed 

 on an ill-defiued dark, terminal shade; terminal line blackish, 

 interrupted at the veins and somewhat midway between ; 

 fringe almost unmarked. Hind wing much paler, with a 

 cloudy band of light-brown jnst proximal to middle and two 

 broad dentate lines Tor narrow liands) beyond, the latter close 

 to termen at both ends. 



Fore •^ing beneath with cell-sp^t ; postmedian line and one 

 con'esponding to second of upperside strong, the other mark- 

 ings weak : hind wing less pale than above, the bands weak. 



Mt. Murud, 6500 feet, November ^type). (paratype, smaller 

 and rather darker than type). 



9 34 mm. 



Fore wing much paler and weaker-marked than in the o*", 

 but otherwise similar, though the subterminal line looks 

 rather more deeply dentate. 



Mt. Poi, 4300 feet, allotype. 



