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line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with dark reddish brown ; cilia 
ochreous white with a brown line through them; the under- 
side ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot, 
indistinet curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2 and diffused 
subterminal line. 
Hab. Burua, Thyctmyo, 2 2 type. Levp. 38 millim. 
Genus ELIGMA. 
Type. 
Eligma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 164 (1827).........sceseeseneresersesseeeeeseeeee NArCISSUS, 
Panglima, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E, I. C, ii. 5 297 (1859) seveee MATCISSUS, 
Surina, W1k. Proc, N. H. Soe. Glasgow, 1. p. 833 (1869) ......... hypsoides. 
Proboscis aborted, small; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to well 
above vertex of head, the 3rd as long as the 2nd, slender, dilated at extremity ; 
frous smooth, with ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antenns of male 
typically somewhat laminate and almost simple, the basal joint with tuft of 
hair in front; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; 
fore femora fringed with long hair, the tibie fringed on both sides with long 
hair, the mid and hind tibise slightly fringed wit. hair ; ; abdomen with small 
crests on two basal segments. Fore wing ‘long and narrow, the costa highly 
arched near base, then almost straight, the apex somewhat produced and acute, 
the termen nearly straight to vein 3, then oblique, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 
to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen somewhat 
excised at discal fold; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6,7 from upper 
angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to well beyond iniddle. 
Secr. I. (Surina.) Antenne of male with fascicles of long cilia. 
A. Fore wing blue-black with broad yellow antemedial band 
and lunulate patch beyond the cell............,.....-.-..-s0 letepicta. 
B. Fore wing violaceous brown with curved yellow and 
white fascia below the darker costal area. 
a. Hind wing with white apical patch. 
a', Fore wing with the black line from near lower angle 
ofscellito inter inareime doubler eee. 2-2-1e-----ereeee duplicata. 
61, Fore wing with the black line from near lower angle 
of cell tomnner margin single srsse...cs-sodeceaes cere hypsoides. 
6. Ifind wing without white apical patch................... «. malagassica. 
6631. Eligma letepicta. 
Eligma letepicta, Oberth, Kt. Ent. xvii. p. 82, pl. 1. f. 6 (1893). 
Head and thorax blue-black ; pectus and legs orange; fore legs 
blue-black, the mid tibize banded orange and black, the tarsi black 
ringed with white; abdomen orange, the crests at base black, the 
two following segments with small dorsal and lateral black spots, 
the anal tuft black above. Fore wing blue-black ; a broad obliquely 
curved sulphur-ycilow band from just below costa to inner margin 
before middle, its outer edge somewhat sinuous; a large Innulate 
yellow patch beyond the cell from below costa to vein 3. Hind wing 
orange with blue-black terminal band, extending to middle of costa 
and narrowing to a point at tornus, its Inner edge oblique to vein 4, 
then sinuous ; cilia white at tips towards apex. Underside of fore 
