BY L. B. PROUT. 209 



Fore wing shaped as in albidaria Walk., or slightly broader; 

 white, suffused almost throughout with pale or light vinaceous- 

 drab and irrorated with brown ; markings much as in 

 albidaria, the lines arising from black costal spots, indistinct, 

 but accompanied by brown shading and marked with black dots 

 or minute teeth on the veins ; median rather less strongly ex- 

 curved, passing round the obscure greyish cell-mark, sometimes 

 almost crossing it, posteriorly nearer to postmedian than to 

 antemedian, with a sharp proximal tooth at SM^ ; dark mark 

 behind W outside the postmedian, sometimes developed into 

 a roundish black-grey spot ; subterminal shade not or scarcely 

 darkened at costa. Hind wing with cell rather shorter than in 

 albidaria; concolorous with fore wing, rather white at base; 

 markings much as in albidaria but with the median line or shade 

 close to cell-dot, the postmedian a little more regular than in 

 that species. 



Fore wing beneath with a broad (at K~ 9 mm.) black-brown 

 terminal band, reaching termen at SC^— R" and again at tornus, 

 enclosing apically and behind E^ large white terminal spots ; 

 cell-spot large ; a median shade just proximal to it. Hind wing 

 similar, the terminal white marking more band-like, only 

 interrupted at radial fold. 



9 similar, the white ground-colour less obscured. 



Mt. Poi, 4400 feet (cf type), 4500 feet (9 allotype), 3500 

 feet— 1 (f ; Mt. Murud, 6000-6500 feet, October— 1 cT- 



123. DiLOPHODES ELEGANS auHbasis subsp. n. 



9 53 mm. 



Distinguishable at a glance from the other races in having 

 the base of the fore wing orange, concolorous with the thorax, 

 the abdomen above white. The maculation of the wings, 

 which will doubtless prove as variable as in the allies, shows 

 a tendency toward longitudinal extensions and coalescences ; 

 in particular the last row of spots before the terminal on the 

 fore wing shows a very strong development, is anteriorly almost 

 entirely confluent with the preceding series (forming a nearly 

 solid apical patch from costa to R^) and the spot on M\ being 

 much enlarged, encroaches much more on the midterminal 

 projection of the ground-colour than in the other races. 



Mt. Murud, 6000-6500 feet, October, the type only. 



I have seen a damaged example from the Malay Peninsula. 

 In the present specimen the long stalk of SC^'^ anastomoses 

 at a point with C, but the venation of the species is notoriously 

 inconstant; see Hampson (Faun. Ind. Moths, iii, p. 305). 



