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second and third median veinlets, with a dot, the fifth, beyond and in 

 front of it, and a series of three dots, the sixth, seventh and eighth, in 

 a series, in front of this again. 



Posterior wings each with a conspicuous tuft of long dark brown 

 pale-based setae inserted into the wing membrane immediately behind 

 the base of the subcostal trunk. 



Wings below lighter and duller. 



Anterior wings with a huge oval ashy patch of a most brilliant 

 satiny lustre, occupying the middle four-fifths of the portion of the 

 organs between the median vein and the posterior margin, and in 

 middle of which is so placed as to be divided by the submedian vein 

 a very much smaller oval patch of brown modified scales. Female, wings 

 above paler and scarcely at all suffused with purple, with the setae olive- 

 green and the cilia pale luteous. Anterior pair all but invariably with 

 nine spots, an additional opaque one being present just in front of the 

 submedian vein a little beyond the middle of the organs. Wings below 

 pure dead uniform olive-brown. 



Expanse, *o 1*63, 9 1*88 inches. 



The female has been described by Mr. Moore as that of his H. cahira" 

 (W.-M. and de N. I. c.) 



According to Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville the male in 

 Andaman specimens varies considerably in the number of spots while the 

 female is almost constant. In the male, if the semicircular series of 

 eight discal spots, be numbered in the order of their succession from before 

 backwards, inwards and forwards, then while the third, fifth, sixth and 

 seventh spots are invariably present, the first and the fourth are frequently 

 absent, and the second and eighth occasionally so. 



Hab. Andamans, Sikkim. 



In recording this species from Sikkim (J. A. S. B., 1883, p. 85) 

 Mr. de Niceville notes that specimens from that locality vary even 

 more than those from the Andamans, and range " from totally unmarked 

 specimens of both sexes through every gradation to the typical number 

 of eight spots." Also recorded from Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; 

 Tavoy (Elwes and de Niceville} ; Calcutta (de Niceville) ; Orissa (Taylor) ; 

 Sikkim (Elwes). 



Two varieties of this species have been described by Mr. Moore as 

 B. unicolor and B. scopulifera, of which the former is the spotless form which 

 is figured by de Niceville as quoted above, and the other has six spots in 

 the male and eight in the female. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



34._BAORIS PENICILLATA, MOORE. 



Baoris penicillata, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 166, (1881). 

 " Allied to B. scopulifeva. Upperside dark olive brown. Male : fore- 

 wing with four semi-diaphanous yellow spots, two being apical and two 



