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blackish patch across the wing before the middle, broad at 

 the costa and gradually somewhat narrowing to the hinder 

 margin, the outer margin of the patch curving round the 

 white spot, then straight down to the hinder margin ; ante- 

 medial and medial black, irregular and thin transverse lines, 

 the medial line running through the outer margin of the 

 patch, a blackish thin straight band from near the apex of 

 the fore wing to the abdominal margin of the hind wing 

 close to the hinder angle, its outer edge somewhat suffused ; 

 a fine lunulate black marginal line pricked with white dots. 

 Underside : fore wing blackish brown, a white spot ringed 

 with a fine black line at the end of the cell, a line of black 

 submarginal marks interrupted by the veins, the space from 

 this to the margin ochreous, hinder marginal space whitish : 

 hind wing pale ochreous suffused with blackish, a black 

 ringed white spot at the end of the cell, two outwardly 

 curved lunulate lines across the middle, a submarginal series 

 of white spots ; abdomen and legs concolorous with the 

 wings, a white spot at the base of the palpi. 



? . Fore wing uniform blackish brown, very dark, nearly 

 black ; a white spot at the end of the cell ; a black transverse 

 straight band as in the male, but pale-edged outwardly : 

 hind wing slightly paler, no other markings. Underside: 

 both wings as dark as the upperside of the fore wings; 

 markings as in the male, but without the ochreous space at 

 the outer margin of the fore wing. 



Expanse of wings, £ $ , l^j inch. 



Hab. Port Blair, Audamans, 2 £ , 1 ? , Nicobars, 1 ? . 



Tochara creberrima. 



Thermesia creberrima, Walker, xv. 1574 (1858). 



lima pyralina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 610. 



Tochara obliqua, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 175, pi. vi. fig. 27 (1882). 



Thermesia creberrima, Hampson, Moths of India, ii. p. 536 (1894). 



The type came from Silhet; it is described by Walker as 

 a female, but the description is that of a male ; the female 

 does not seem to have been described by anyone. The 

 pattern is that of the male, but the colour is uniform dark 

 purplish brown. I have both sexes from the Khasia Hills 

 (four females) and a male from Goping Perak ; Hampson 

 also records it from the Andamans. 



Tochara gilloloensis, nov. 



c? . Antennae and palpi dark grey. Upperside : head, 

 body, and both wings pinkish white ; wings irrorated with 



