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Subfamily IIEMITHEINAE. 

 IT. Pingasa multispurcata spec. nov. 



Sj^e-^'J mm. Face broadly black above, narrowly whitish below. Palpus 

 two aud a half times diameter of eye, pale, dark-mixed above. Thorax aad abdomen 

 concolorous with wings. Foreleg strongly, middle and hindleg .slightly fiiscons 

 above, with the ends of the joints remaining pale. 



Wings above similarly colonred to tcphroKiaria (Jnen., bnt much more heavily 

 dark-sprinkled, antemedian line much less strongly outcurved, postmedian less 

 deeply dentate. Hindwing with the raised scales almost wanting. 



Under-snrface white, slightly more dusted than in tcphrosiaria, the discal 

 marks, at least on forewing, strong, subterminal band on both wings narrow, not 

 connected with termen by dark shailing between tlie radials ; on forewing con- 

 tinuous or nearly so, constricted or slightly interrupted at the veins, on hindwing 

 much narrowed or interrnpted at costa and about R'* — M', broadened between 

 the radials. 



Rawal Pindi (type), (Jampbellpur, July 25, 1886 (paratype), both in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



A distinct little species, hitherto ap])arently overlooked. Although both 

 e.xamples are in good condition they show scarcely a trace of the tufts of raised 

 scales on the hindwing, but they are in every other respect absolutely typical 



18. Pingasa alba brunnescens subsp. nov. 



Differs from the type form {Viiigam iilha Swiuh., '/'/■. /.'///. Soc. T.ontlon, 18'.»1, 

 ]i. 4!n) in having the upper surface coarsely sprinkled throughout with light 

 ochreons-brownish ; postmedian line rather thick, intensely black. On the under 

 surface the postmedian is also discernible, blackish, the broad liand which follows 

 it usually more tinged with brownish or smoky, hence distinctly ditferentiable, only 

 in the ]iair in coll. Wileman merged with the line. 



Gifn, ISSIj, 2 cJ(? 2 ? ? (ex coll. Pryer) ; Ningpo, July ]SS(i, 1 ? ; all in coll. 

 Hrit. Mus. Himi (?), lyo, June 29, 189(3, 1 tj 1 ? in coll. Wileman. 



This is the Pseiuloteri/mi alba of Leech {Ann. May. Xat. IlUt. ((>) xx. p. 228), 

 bnt although both he and I {Seitz hfncrolep. iv. p. 10) noticed the colour variation, 

 it has not yet been registered as a subspecies. After examining all the material 

 iiccessiblc to me 1 am, however, convinced that the diftcrences are constant. 

 Some examples (chiefly ?) are more darkened than others, the Ningjw and lyo 

 examples in particular, 'ihe latter two have the band beneath very broad and 

 black, almost reaching the termen. 



19. Pingasa nobilis sjiec. nov. 



1^, ;')•'] nnn. Face ochreous, without, <lark bar above. l'al]ins palrr, b('n<'ath 

 white, proportions as in riiiiiiinriii (iiieu. Vertex white tinged with grey. Thorax 

 wliite, al)ove tinged with grey; abdomen white, dorsally sjirinkled with ochreous, 

 crestH small, slightly (jclircims, inirjutely lilack on eillicr side, anal tuft and tuft 

 at base of abdomen beneath ociii'cons. Hiiidtibia strongly dilalccl, without terminal 

 process, tarsus liarely over three-iifths tibia. 



Wings shajied as in ruqinnria, white, somewhat ])urer than in that species ; thi 



speckling mostly grey, mixed with red at inner margin of hindwing. Fore 



win^ with first line blackish, at costa thick, deep velvety black, its course its "" 



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