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silvery grey at the sides; abdomen blackish, with white or whitish bands, but the basal two 

 thirds suffused with brownish ochrcous. Under surface white, clouded with grey; fringe 

 nearly as above: primaries with a suhmarginal undulated greyish suffusion bounding the 

 outer border, wdiieh is pure white, and traversed mar the margin by a series of depressed 

 triangular black spots and a marginal series of black lunulcs. Expanse of wings 70 millim. 

 Darjiling {Scklagentweit § Lidderdale) . 



Phalera parivala. (Plate CIII. fig. 2.) 

 Phalera parivala, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Gomp. ii. p. 43-f. n. 9S.'i ( L858-59). 



Primaries above smoky brown, with faint indications of numerous parallel darker lunu- 

 latcd lines ; the base, the ordinary discoidal spots, and the external angle greyish white, 

 varied with darker greyish and black ; the interno-basal area blackish ; a fairly distinct 

 undulated brown stripe limiting the basal fourth ; apical patch (of the left-hand wing) 

 "1-shapedj with undulated edges, extending from the subcostal to the second median vein, its 

 inner border consisting of five confluent flesh-coloured lunate spots with whitish edges and 

 black internal border, the remainder olivaceous, with slender paler outer edge; beyond this 

 are four small olivaceous suhmarginal spots surrounded by wbitish scales ; fringe red, varied 

 with ochreous and white and spotted with black : secondaries smoky grey-brown, with a 

 slightly paler stripe beyond the middle, fringe white spotted with blackish : body testaceous, 

 the frons, borders of tegulae, and metathorax purplish brown; front of head and collar clear 

 stramineous; tcgulie greyish white; abdomen brownish, especially towards the base, and 

 banded with blackish grey. Primaries below smoky grey; a whitish costal spot at apical 

 fourtb ; a suhmarginal series of olivaceous spots, followed and partly bordered by white scales, 

 upon which are little black lunules which divide the white scales from a marginal series of 

 wdiite, yellow, and red — |-shaped markings; fringe beyond the marginal markings grey, 

 speckled with white and regularly spotted with black ; secondaries whity brown, with an 

 arched greyish stripe beyond the middle and a tapering grey band near outer margin ; fringe 

 white, spotted with blackish : body below blackish ; tarsi pale sandy whitish ; anal half of 

 venter pale testaceous, spotted with black at the sides; a ferruginous streak on each side of 

 the anal segment. Expanse of wings 84 millim, 



Darjiling {Lidderdale). 



Phalera arenosa. (Plate CIII. fig. 3.) 



Phalera arenosa, Butler, Ann. 3f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 66. n. 10 (18S0). 



Allied to P. sangana, but the whole ground-colour of the internal half of primaries pale 

 sericeous sandy yellow, traversed by the ordinary undulated lines and spots, the costal half 

 much darker, varied with slaty grey in the centre and at apex, the discoidal spots well 

 defined; the secondaries greyer, with blacker external third ; the head yellowish instead of 



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