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ZANA, Walker. 



Zana lignosa. (Plate CIV. fig. 4.) 

 Zana lignosa, Walker, Cut. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1700 (1855). 



Dingy whitish ; primaries slightly browner at the margins; a bronze-brown band 

 widening from base to apical half of outer margin, but interrupted from the end of the cell by 

 a deeply dentated patch of creamy white ; a black oblique line bounding the anterior edge of 

 the brown band from the apex to the cream-coloured patch, where it turns acutely inwards, 

 the base of the second and third median branches also black ; a marginal series of black- 

 edged pyramidal white spots, between which the external border is brown and black ; fringe 

 of secondaries spotted with black : centre of thorax tinted with testaceous ; abdomen dull 

 reddish ochreous, with whitish anal segment. Primaries below sericeous greyish white ; 

 secondaries white, with slightly yellowish borders ; fringes black-spotted : pectus greyish ; 

 venter creamy whitish, with a lateral series of black spots. Expanse of wings 55 millim. 



North India [Copt. Boys). 



RAMESA, Walk. 



Ramesa tosta. (Plate CIV. fig. 15.) 

 Ramesa tosta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1017. n. 1 (1855). 



Primaries above ochreous ; costal border purplish slate-coloured, emitting two stripes 

 near the base, which pass through the radial interspaces to outer margin and are mottled 

 with white; internal border broadly clouded with brown; an arched discal scries of dark 

 brown dots ; a marginal series of black spots edged internally with white ; fringe grey : 

 secondaries pale smoky brown ; fringe whitish ; thorax rufous-brown* in front, greyish behind ; 

 abdomen whity brown. Under surface pale sericeous greyish brown ; pectus and legs darker 

 smoky brown. Expanse of wings 37 millim. 



North India, probably Assam. 



HYPER2ESCHRA, Bull. 



Hyperseschra pallida. (Plate CIV. fig. 0.) 



Hypeneschra pallida, Butler, Ann. ij- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 05. n. 8 (18SU). 



Whity bixwn ; primaries chalky white, sprinkled with brown towards the inner margin 

 and across the centre of the median interspaces; two irregularly zigzag widely divergent 

 black-brown lines representing the central belt and enclosing a large white reniform spot : 

 two longitudinal black streaks on the interno-median area from the base to the inner margin 

 of the central belt ; a black longitudinal streak, interrupted by the reniform spot, from the 

 inner line of the central belt to the middle of the disk, where it joins a brown streak on the 



