412 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



convergent black lines enclosing a purplish brown stripe ; external 

 area purplish brown, with a nebulous blackish spot on the second 

 median interspace, external margin and fringe as in primaries ; 

 body of different brown shades corresponding with those of the 

 primaries; abdomen with three dorsal and two lateral subbasal 

 tufts ; under sm'face greyish stone-colour, with faint brassy 

 reflections, especially on internal area of jirimaries ; numerous sub- 

 parallel slender brown lines, excepting across the basal area ; three 

 of these lines, across the disc of secondaries, more strongly defined 

 than the others ; a submarginal series of black dots ; fringes tipped 

 with reddish brown ; tarsi black, banded with whitish. Expanse 

 of wings, 48 mm. 



Gayndah. 



HYPOGEAMMID^. 



Gadirtha, Walker. 

 52. Gadirtha pulchra, n. s. 

 Primaries above sericeous silver-grey, transversely striated with 

 dark gi'ey and black scales ; basal area whitish, bounded by two 

 transverse black lines, slightly divergent at costa ; three grey costal 

 dashes, the second broad and oblique ; orbicular spot pale sandy 

 brownish ; reniform spot large, outlined in black, enclosing, in its 

 posterior half, a triangular grey-brown spot; two transverse black 

 lines from first median branch to inner margin, the inner line 

 throwing off a slender curved line at right angles to join the post- 

 median line, the outer line shorter, but also rectangular at its upper 

 extremity ; post-median line black, crossing the wing obliquely 

 from costa to outer margin near external angle ; a reversed oblique 

 black dash from costa almost to the post-median line, incised at its 

 extremity, and continued across the disc by a regular zigzag white 

 line, the uppermost >-shaped division of which is edged with 

 greyish ; a marginal series of subconfluent black crescents ; fringe 

 white, spotted with greyish at the base ; secondaries subhyaline 

 pearl-white, with the veins and a broad decreasing external border 

 greyish brown with golden reflections, fringe piu'e white ; thorax 

 ash-grey, the collar crossed in front by a slightly arched slender 

 black line ; antennae testaceous ; abdomen silver-grey banded with 

 white ; primaries below greyish, becoming white on interno-basal 

 area and faintly glossed with gold ; costa creamy white from the 

 end of the cell almost to the apex, with four elongate black spots 

 on its anterior edge ; a marginal series of small triangular black 

 spots ; fringe white, with a double series of greyish spots ; secondaries 

 pearl-white ; a large cuneiform diffused costal spot or streak, and 

 the external border greyish with gulden reflections ; body below 



