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below the cell. Hind wing dark brown ; two very indistinct 

 quadrate marks at apex. The tuft on hind tibia ochreous. 



$ . The first postmedial baud of fore wing straighter and with- 

 out the white spot inside it. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Bombay. Exp., <$ 70, $ 83 millim. 



682. Phassus punctimargo, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen duller brown. 

 .Fore wing dark red-brown ; the inner area, two oblique bands on 

 the outer area, and the outer angle with a glossy leaden tinge ; 

 some very indistinct yellowish quadrate marks on the costa ; two 

 indistinct postmedial lines, the inner with a white spot inside it 

 beyond the cell, the outer curved at middle ; between these two 

 lines is a series of irregular ring-marks ; a similar submarginal 

 series ; traces of white specks on the outer margin ; some indis- 

 tinct irregular ring-marks on inner area. Hind wing pale brown, 

 with two very indistinct dark marks near the apex ; the outer 

 margin dark. 



$ . Paler red-brown ; fore wing with the white spot absent ; 

 the outer postmedial line nearly straight ; a series of prominent 

 white spots and streaks on outer margin of both wings more or 

 less conjoined in places and differently developed in the several 

 individuals. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp., <* 54, $ 90-108 millim. Type in 

 coll. B. M. 



683. Phassus damor, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 437 ; C. $ 8. no. 1618 ; 



Bull III. Ret. vi, pi. 109, tig. .3. 

 Endoclyta similis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 81, fig. 3 ; C. $ 8. no. 1522. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown ; 

 some dark brown quadrate marks along the costa ; a triangular 

 brown mark at centre of cell joined below the cell to an oblique 

 irregular brown mark which extends to vein 1 and nearly fills the 

 end of the cell and an area beyond and below it, leaving a curved 

 pale streak from the middle to upper angle of cell ; a small spot on 

 vein 1 just before the brown band ; a streak beyond the end of the 

 cell ; three double oblique bands of more or less coalesced spots, 

 one at end of cell, the second postmedial, the third submarginal. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; some brown spots on costa and outer margin 

 near the apex. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp., rf 66, $ 88 millim. 



684. Phassus purpurascens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 156, pi. 143, fig. 4 ; 



C. $ 8. no. 1620. 



$ . Differs from damor in the ground-colour of the wings being 

 purplish. Fore wing with a white " comma " mark in the cell 

 before the middle, another at upper end, with from one to four 

 white specks just outside the cell ; a black subbasal speck between 



