PEOBLEPSIS. SOMATINA. 463 



SECT. II. Antennae of male with fascicles of cilia. 

 3979. Profolepsis conjunctiva, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 358. 1 



c? . White ; head and abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with the 

 costa fuscous ; a very large discal ocellus, its outer ring fuscous 

 interiorly, fulvous exteriorly, inside this is a silver ring, the centre 

 grey and brown, with two black marks below the centre ; a fuscous 

 band from the ocellus to the middle of inner margin of hind wing 

 expanding on disk, with a silver discocellular band and brown and 

 silver incomplete ocellus on it ; both wings with silver fascia on 

 inner margin ; a pale fulvous postmedial band, excurved and some- 

 what irregular on fore wing, and with fuscous spots beyond it on 

 both wings. Underside with wide fuscous medial band, expanding 

 into discal patches and a curved postmedial band. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus SOMATINA. 



Somatina, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 10 (1857). 



Nobilia, Wlk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1098 (1862). 



Dithalama, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii, p. 840 (1887). 



Lipomelia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 359. 



Defoa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 151. 



Type, S. anthopliilata, Guen. 



Eange. S. Africa ; W. Africa ; Japan ; China : throughout 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo ; Australia. 



Differs from Problepsis in the antennae of male usually being 

 ciliated. Fore wing with vein 10 rising from 7, 8, 9, anastomosing 

 with 11, and then with 8, 9 to form a double areole. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male with fascicles of cilia. 



3980. Somatina cana, n. sp. 



"White ; the frons fuscous. Wings irrorated with a few fuscous 

 scales. Fore wing with traces of a waved antemedial line ; a large 

 irregular rufous and fuscous ocellus at end of cell, with a ring of 

 bluish-silver scales on it ; hind wing with a fulvous and silver line 

 on discocellulars ; both wings with a curved and slightly sinuous 

 postmedial series of black specks, with a series of fuscous spots 

 beyond them, and another series just inside the margin ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black striae. 



Hob. Punjab ; Ceylon ; Baudin Isl., N.W. coast of Australia. 

 Exp. 30 millim. Type in B. M. 



3981. Somatina extrusata, Wlk. Cat. mi, p. 637 ; C. $ S. no. 1261. 



$ . Differs from cana in being grey, with a vinous tinge and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; vertex of head white. Fore wing with 

 the ocellus larger and reddish ochreous ; hind wing with a band 



