12 PHALERIDjE. 



Primaries below shining fuliginous brown ; secondaries white, with the costal and external 

 borders fuliginous : body below greyish brown. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 

 Darjiling (IAdderdale) . 



MENAPIA, Walk. 



Menapia xanthophila. (Plate CIV. fig. 1.) 

 Menapia xanthophila, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Svppl. ii. p. 402 (1865). 



Primaries above bright, clear, golden ochre-yellow ; the radial veins, a rather broad 

 stripe from the base to the apex, five oblique series of small spots, and an abbreviated widely 

 zigzag streak between the fourth and fifth series bright orange-ferruginous : secondaries 

 pale purplish brown, with the costa and fringe pale testaceous : body testaceous ; the head and 

 prothorax washed with orange-ferruginous. Under surface pale ochreous, the discoidal 

 areas slightly suffused with brownish. Expanse of wings 56 millim. 



North India. 



The stripe on the primaries varies in depth of colour ; in some examples it is dark 

 brown ; the secondaries are also sometimes darker than in the type. 



ANTHEUA, Walk. 



Antheua discalis. (Plate CIV. figs. 2 & 3.) 

 Antheua discalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 707. n. 4 (1855). 



£ . Primaries above clear creamy stramineous; two unequal brownish lilac spots at the 

 base of the median interspaces ; a marginal series of small lilac-brown spots ; fringe 

 testaceous : secondaries creamy white : thorax creamy ochreous, trashed at the back with 

 greyish ferruginous ; abdomen dull ferruginous, with the sides and last two segments dull 

 cream-coloured. Under surface clear cream-coloured ; pectus reddish ochraceous in front. 

 Expanse of wings 19 millim. 



? . Altogether darker than the male, the primaries bright ochreous, sparsely dotted over 

 with dark ochreous, with a single black scale in the centre of each spot excepting towards the 

 base; spots on median interspaces larger than in the male, subconfluent ; marginal lunules 

 ferruginous, fringe greyish ferruginous : secondaries smoky greyish brown, whitish at the 

 base: head bright yellow; thorax and abdomen pale orange-ferruginous, the sides of tin- 

 abdomen white, with two scries of black spots ; anus white. Under surface of wings clay- 

 brown ; pectus ferruginous in front, venter whitish. Expanse of wings 17 millim. 



North India, Moulmein, Burmah. 



A very common and widely distributed species. The genus appears to me to belong to 

 the Phaleridse. 



