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Male. Brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi obliquely ascending, not 

 rising higher than the vertex ; second joint squanious, fringed 

 beneath ; third elongate- conical, about one-fourth of the length of the 

 second. Antennae smooth. Abdomen cinereous, extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings, with a row of small dorsal brown tufts ; apical 

 tuft small. Legs smooth. Fore wings with a large white black- 

 speckled patch on the interior border at the base ; two zigzag black 

 lines, one at the base, the other on the patch near its outer side ; two 

 undulating dark brown lines, one antemedial, the other postmedial ; 

 orbicular and reniform marks large, brown-bordered, the former 

 nearly round, the latter partly bordered with white ; postmedial line 

 partly and irregularly bordered with white, as is also the zigzag brown 

 submarginal line ; marginal lunules dark brown, whitish-bordered. 

 Hind wings pale cinereous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



Allied to E. fmcula, from which it is distinguished by the white 

 patch at the base of the fore wings. 



66. PALINDIA SCITA. Fcem. Ochraceo-cervina, capite antice 

 albo, palpis cervinis arcuatis caput superantibus articulo 3o lanceolate, 

 thorace antice albo tenuiter fasciato, pectore albo, alis anticis fasciis 

 tribus angustis cyaneis la nigro marginata 3a fusco marginata lineis 

 tribus subrectis strigaque fuscis linea submarginali argeriiea, alis 

 posticis linea transversa uudulata fusca striga lata cyanea atomisque 

 riigris posticis punctis tribus marginalibus argenteis. 



Female. Ochraceous fawn-colour, dull fawn-colour beneath. Head 

 white in front. Palpi fawn-colour, smooth, curved, rising higher 

 than the vertex, white on the inner side; third joint lanceolate, about 

 half the length of the second. Thorax with a slender white band in 

 front. Pectus and legs white. Abdomen hardly extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Fore wings acute; three metallic-blue slender 

 bands ; a slightly undulating transverse brown line near the outer 

 side of the lirst band, which is black-bordered ; a brown nearly 

 straight line near the inner side of the second band, which is joined 

 in the disk by a transverse brown streak ; a brown nearly straight 

 line near the inner side of the third band, which is bordered with 

 brown on the outer side ; a more exterior brown line converging 

 towards the third band and a submarginal silvery line. Hind wings 

 with an undulating brown transverse line which near the interior 

 angle is contiguous to a broad metallic-blue streak, the latter on the 

 hind side is contiguous to a cluster of black speckles ; three silvery 

 marginal points ; exterior border bidentate. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



