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hinder margin ; two black spots on a whitish ground in the 

 middle of the disc, a white spot at the base of the wing ; 

 a postmedial outwardly curved, dentated white line and 

 another submarginal, marginal line finely dark brown ; cilia 

 checkered white and brown : hind wing dark brownish grey, 

 marginal line and cilia as on the fore wing ; head and body 

 dark grey, a white spot on the middle of the thorax, the 

 abdomen with some whitish suffusion especially at its 

 extremity. Underside grey : fore wing grey, a white spot 

 in the middle : hind wing paler, with some whitish in the 

 interspaces ; face and body white, legs grey above, white 

 beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ inch. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. 



Characoma araca, nov. 



£ ? . Fore wing greyish white minutely irrorated with 

 black atoms, four highly dentated transverse black lines, 

 subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal, the first 

 and second lines constricted hindwards, the third bent out- 

 ward in its middle, a blackish patch on the costa against the 

 outer side of the third line, a black costal spot on the sub- 

 marginal line, all the lines more or less finely bordered with 

 white, a series of minute black lunules pricked with white 

 on the outer margin ; cilia coloured like the wing, crossed by 

 darker grey lines opposite the vein ends : hind wing whitish, 

 semihyaline, tinged with grey on the costa and outer border, 

 veins grey ; head and body concolorous with the wings. 

 Underside nearly uniform pale grey, three white dots near 

 the apex on the costa of the fore wing ; palpi beneath, face 

 and body smeared with white ; legs striped with white. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, 1^,4$. 



Giaura multipunctata, nov. 



Symitha punctata, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 236, pi. vii. 

 fig. 15 (prseocc). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Khasia Hills, Nilgiri Hills. 



Lucas, in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, (2) iv. 

 p. 1675 (April 1890), described Sarotricha punctata from 

 Queensland, Australia ; it is also a Giaura, and in Phal. xi. 

 p. 284, Sir George Hampson has put my name as a synonym 

 to Lucas's name. I cannot believe that a rare Australian 

 species is the same as an equally rare Indian species. Un- 

 fortunately I have no Australian punctata to dissect, but in 



