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snow-white ; the body black, with greyish lateral borders to the thorax, and greyish-white 

 bands across the abdominal segments ; anal segment pale cinereous. Primaries below 

 blackish, with the usual pale markings : secondaries sordid white, with an abbreviated, 

 oblique, crinkled, black stripe from the costa to the first median branch ; a dusky discal 

 nebula : pectus black ; the legs with greyish fringes ; venter sordid white, with lateral black 

 bands continued from above. Expanse of wings 87 millim. 

 Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



Phalera sangana. (Plate CIII. fig. 4.) 

 Phalera sangana, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 433. n. 981 (1858-59). 



Primaries above smoky brown, a little paler at base and on the posterior half of external 

 area ; the whole surface crossed by numerous undulated darker lines ; tliscoidal spots indistinct, 

 pale testaceous with brown centres ; an interrupted black transverse line at basal fourth ; a 

 slender lunulated black line bounding the external area and forking from the third median 

 branch to the costa ; the area thus enclosed a little redder than the rest of the wing ; three or 

 four longitudinal reddish dashes beyond this area and a submarginal series of slender blackish 

 lunules; the usual dusky spot from external angle to first median branch : secondaries smoky 

 greyish brown, with darker external area ; fringe tipped with white : head snow-white 

 above ; the frons, palpi, and thorax dark smoky brown, with black transverse lines ; teguke 

 greyish; abdomen brown with blackish-grey bands, anal segment paler. Primaries below 

 smoky brown, varied with whity brown on apical area and with au interrupted submarginal 

 streak of the same colour : secondaries creamy whitish, with an elbowed blackish band from 

 before the middle of costa obliquely to beyond end of cell ; a greyish nebula towards outer 

 margin : body below whity brown, varied with creamy whitish. Expanse of wings 88 

 millim. 



Darjiling. 



Mr. Moore has omitted to describe the under surface of his new species — a practice 

 by which the identification of species is too often rendered almost impossible. In the 

 three species (P. arenosu, sangana, and stigmigera) here described, the banding of the under 

 surface of the secondaries is very dissimilar, whereas the pattern of the wings on the upper 

 surface is almost the same in all three. 



Phalera stigmigera. (Plate CIII. fig. 5.) 



Phalera stigmigera, Butler, Ann. fy May. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 66. n. 9 (18S0). 



Nearly allied to P. sangana, but the primaries shorter, broader, with large whitish 

 reniform stigma ; the orbicular spot placed nearer to it and very indistinct ; the inner line of 

 the central belt single and more irregular, rather nearer to the base ; base of costa sprinkled 

 with white scales ; the external angle blackish, so that the spots which terminate the discal 



