18 DREPANUL1D2E. 



the discoidal cell ; a few greeuish-wliite scales in each of these spots : body a little paler than 

 the wings. Under surface sericeous sandy ochraceous, with a small rounded blackish spot 

 at the inferior angle of each discoidal cell ; primaries with the external area slightly dusky. 

 Expanse of wings 43 millim. 

 Darjiliug (Lidderdale). 



DREPANA, Schr. 



Drepana specularis. (Plate CV1. fig. 3.) 

 $ . Drepana specularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 407; Lep. Ins. Ceylon, ii. p. 120, pi. 124. fig. 2. 



J . Smaller than the female, the wings narrower and more produced, the primaries 

 decidedly more falcate ; all the markings, excepting the irregular patch across the centre of 

 the primaries, much more strongly defined. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 



£ , Darjiling [Lidderdale) ; ? , Ceylon (Thwaites). 



The female in the Museum collection has the apex of the primaries somewhat more 

 produced than in Mr. Moore's figure ; it measures 63 millim. in expanse. 



AUZATA, Walk. 



Auzata semipavonaria. (Plate CVI. fig. 1.) 

 Auzata semipavonaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. JJet. xxvi. p. 1(520 (18G2). 



Chalky white; wings with two parallel irregular pale greyish-brown stripes across the 

 basal third ; two just beyond the middle, followed by a series of dots and two undulated 

 submarginal lines ; primaries with a P-shaped patch upon the disk interrupting the post- 

 median stripes, its upper part pale brown, with a •white line in front and with the veins across 

 it partly white, its lower part brown internally and black externally. Under surface sericeous, 

 white ; the subcostal area towards the base and the base of the costa pale brownish. Expanse 

 of wings 42 millim. 



North India. 



MACROCTLIX, gen. nov. 



Allied to Arytjris. Wings more transparent; ncuration entirely different ; primaries 

 with four subcostal veins, but the first and second lying close together and emitted from 

 a short footstalk, which originates at some distance before flic end of the cell ; third 

 and fourth branches emitted from a long footstalk and forming a long fork to apex; 

 radials emitted as in Aryyris, but the discoccllular veinlets funning an angle instead of a 

 transverse line; second and third median branches well separated at their origins. Secon- 

 daries witli much longer abdominal margin and consequently more oblique outer margin ; 



