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central belt, are an indistinct angnlated greyish line and a white discoidal dot; beyond and 

 parallel to the outer whitish line is an indistinct line paler than the ground-colour and 

 immediately followed in the centre of the disk by a trifid blackish spot; veins on the disk 

 whitish ; an oblique trifid apical blackish stripe ; a marginal series of blackish spots ; fringe 

 redder than the rest of the wing : secondaries with the basal half and abdominal border 

 whitish. Wings below of a more rosy tint than above, the base creamy white; an oblique 

 white dash just beyond the middle of the costa, indicating the commencement of the outer 

 whitish line of the upper surface ; a blackish nebula upon the disk : secondaries crossed by 

 three dusky lines, the central one alone sharply denned, blackish and zigzag ; a white dot at 

 the end of the cell ; abdominal boi-der broadly creamy white : body below flesh-colonrcd. 

 Expanse of wings 39 millim. 

 Darjiling (Lidderdale, tyc). 



TARSOLEPIS, But/,. 



Tarsolepis fulgurifera. (Plate CVI. fig. 9.) 

 Crino fulgurifera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1347. n. 4 (1S57). 



Primaries with the base, costal and apical areas whity brown, clouded with grey ; 

 one or two irregular dark brown subbasal lines ; remainder of wing, with the exception of the 

 outer border, rich olive-brown, bounded in front upon the third median vein by an elongate 

 fusiform silver streak, and crossed in the centre by an oblique band, silvery white internally, 

 but whity brown from before its centre to its extremity near the external angle ; this band is 

 intersected by a brown stripe almost black towards the base, but becoming abruptly paler 

 before the middle, where an oblique blackish-edged pale line is emitted upwards to the median 

 vein ; a black streak is also enclosed in the pale baud towards its lower extremity, and between 

 it and the silver streak are several pale-bordered more or less blackish stripes ; at the interno- 

 basal angle of the dark-brown area is a tapering black stripe narrowly edged with whitish ; 

 the disk above the silver streak is ornamented with elongated hastate whitish streaks, partly 

 bordered with black, enclosing black stripes and alternated towards the outer border by dark 

 brown pyramidal streaks ; external border whitish internally, then with a stripe of bull', 

 followed by a dark-edged grey-brown stripe and a whitish marginal stripe ; the fringe buff- 

 coloured, tipped with white : secondaries with the basal half cream-coloured; a transverse 

 smoky brown spot at the end of the cell ; outer half dark fuliginous brown, with pale- 

 bordered elongated black marginal spots ; fringe cream-coloured : thorax pale brown, varied 

 with flesh-colour and grey and crossed by more or less curved black stripes ; abdomen cream- 

 coloured, banded with blackish. Under surface cream-coloured, clouded and streaked with 

 smoky brown : primaries with a marginal series of angular dark brown markings; secondaries 

 with a large black spot at the end of the cell and a marginal series of small black spots. 

 Expanse of wiugs 125 millim. 



North India ? 



