28 j\Iiss A. E. Prout on some 



Fore wing with the lines and stigmata a little darker red- 

 brown that! the ground-colour ; the oblique aiitciuedial line 

 and the subterminal streak from three-fifths costa to termen 

 behind R^ proxiinally edged with violet-white; the termen 

 narrowly violet, bordered on each side I)y fuscous (more 

 broadly proximally) ; fringe grey-brown Avith violet lines at 

 base and at middle ; orbicular a small round spot; reniform 

 obliquely oblong, a little narrower at middle, with a slight 

 violet-white line on its distal edge; a subterminal line 

 reappearing from the dark terminal suffusion on M~, retracted 

 to reniform at about origin of M\ thence obliquely waved to 

 two-thirds hind margin; a white dot on violet terminal 

 shade at SC'^ and similar dots proximally to dark suffusion 

 on R^ to M^ ; veins darkened and irrorated with violet-white. 



Hind wing with veins, terminal area (except at apex) and 

 fringe as on fore wing ; small white dots proximally to dark 

 shade on Ri to SM^ ; slight dark lunule on DC^ and DC^. 



Underside of both wings with a slight dark discal spot 

 and a curved subterminal line, represented by white spots on 

 the veins; terminal area (especially on fore wing) irrorated 

 with some violet scales ; fringes as above. 



Upper Tonkin : Muong-Khuong^ Prov. Lackay, 900- 

 1000 m., 1 ? . 



25. Batracharta nigritoyuta, sp. n. (PI. IV. fig. 5.) 



(J . — 43 mm. 



Head, thorax, patagia, fore part of pectus, and palpus 

 black, dotted here and there with ochreous-white; a raised 

 ochreous crest on mesothorax ; abdomen ochreous above, 

 whitish beneath. Antennal shaft black-brown. Fore and 

 mid tibia black, dotted with white ; hind tibia with long 

 ochreous-white hair ; tarsi black with white tips to the 

 joints. 



Fore wing broadened on distal half by a lobe on inner 

 margin. Ground-colour ochreous. Proximal half of wing 

 heavily cloaked with black, dotted with ochreous (especially 

 near costa) and containing a pale red-brown, irregularly 

 rounded reniform, the black area extending about three- 

 fifths along costa, strongly retracted behind cell and reaching 

 inner margin close to body ; distal half of wing of the 

 ground-colour, thickly honeycombed with short, upright, 

 red-brown streaks; distal border pale red-brown, irrorated 

 with black (especially at termen) and extending round the 

 lobe of the inner margin ; fringe ochreous-brown. 



Hind wing ochreous, clothed with short brown hairs ; 



