22 NOTODOXTID^E. 



blackish-edged white stripes enclosing three blackish costal clashes; an outlined white lunule 

 at the end of the cell and two or three white-bordered blackish spots near the inner margin 

 and bounded on each side upon the costa by an irregular elongated blackish patch ; an 

 irregularly sinuated whitish and blackish stripe across the basal fourth, connected below the 

 cell with the inner border of the central belt by a blackish ^-shaped marking; an imperfect 

 white denticulated submarginal stripe, dividing a dark grey patch at external angle, which is 

 continued as a grey external border and bounded by this stripe internally as far upwards 

 as the lower radial vein ; a marginal series of partly white-edged black spots, not extending to 

 apex : secondaries grey, the basal half pale ; a sinuous marginal line and the fringe whity 

 brown : head and collar above black ; antenna} dark brown ; fringe of collar and remainder 

 of body above whity brown. Wings below brown, a darker line beyond the cell followed by 

 a broad darker discal belt, only separated from a dark external border by a narrow zigzag 

 stripe of the ground-colour : body below pale brown ; the front of pectus and venter and a 

 central stripe blackish. Expanse of wings 54-56 millim. 

 Silhet (Stainforth) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



BESAIA, Walk. 



Besaia rubiginea. (Plate CIV. fig. 10.) 

 Iiusaia rubiginea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Met. Suppl. ii. p. 459 (1805). 



Primaries above whitish ochrebus, clouded with grey beyond the middle and along the 

 external border ; basal half of the costal border marked with dark ferruginous dashes ; an 

 irregular zigzag ferruginous line (indistinct within the cell) across the basal third, its lower 

 part thickened, enclosing whitish dots and almost united, by a longitudinal streak of ferru- 

 ginous, to a trisinuated band of the same colour bounding the external area ; the streak 

 enclosing a whitish spot and the band a series of alternate ochrcous lunules and whitish 

 spots; four or live black marginal dots: secondaries and body greyish brown ; fringe and 

 anal extremity of abdomen pale. Under surface pale greyish brown; costal borders pale 

 buff j front of pectus blackish. Expanse of wings 5G millim. 



India. 



0SS0N0BA, Walk. 



Ossonoba torpida. (Plate CVI. fig. 8.) 



OsRonoba torpida, Walker, Cat. Lep. //•>. Suppl. v. p. L966 ( 1866). 



Rufous-brown; primaries crossed by two grey-edged whitish lines, one across the basal 

 fourth, the other, which is slightly sinuous and oblique, jusl beyond the middle, its upper 

 extremity white and' acutely in-angled; between these two whitish lines, which represent the 



