24 NOTODOXTID.E. 



DAMATA, Walk. 



Damata longipennis. (Plate CVI. fig. 10.) 

 Damata longiprnuis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1044. n. 1 (1855). 



Primaries above silver, densely irrorated with black scales, but especially below the apex, 

 where tliey produce the effect of a broad oblique grey belt bouuded internally by an 

 irregularly sinuated silvery discal line ; this line is still further relieved on the costa and near 

 external angle by large irregular black patches; two other somewhat similar though larger 

 patches almost divide the wing at basal third ; at the end of the cell is a silvery crescent, from 

 which the black scales are absent; a marginal series of elongated black spots followed by 

 bright red on the fringe : secondaries seraitransparent white ; costal border blackish, inter- 

 rupted a little before the apex; veins grey; a margiaal black stripe, interrupted by whitish 

 dots at the extremities of the veins and followed by red on the fringe ; a large black spot at 

 anal angle and above it an oblique grey streak ; abdominal area opaque white: body smoky 

 brown, the bead and collar blackish; the tegulse white, with dark red internal fringe; 

 abdomen with a whitish stripe at the sides. Costal half of primaries below suffused with 

 brown ; markings less distinct than above ; costa with two white spots near the centre : 

 secondaries with three angular blackish markings from the costal margin to the subcostal 

 vein, in place of the blackish costal border of the upper surface : body below sandy brown, 

 darker in front than behind. Expanse of wings G9 millim. 



Darjiling (Parry b; Lidderdale). 



ICHTHYURA, Uiibn. 



Ichthyura argentea, sp. n. (Plate CII. fig. 12.) 



General pattern of the genus : primaries silvery white, with the costal area greyish ; a 

 large reniform subbasal patch, its upper lobe bright mahogany-red, its lower lobe partly 

 bright oehreous ; a very oblique purplish slate-coloured band from costa before the middle to 

 outer margin near external angle, interrupted within the cell by a large spot of dead-gold ; 

 the lower half of this band bounds the inferior margin of the usual large apical patch, which is 

 bright golden cupreous, internally edged and traversed by ferruginous lines and brassy yellow 

 externally, the one colour passing almost imperceptibly into the other; a few scattered 

 brown scales along the inner margin; fringe dusky towards external angle: secondaries 

 silvery whitish: head, collar, and base of abdomen white; thorax oehreous and red-brown j 

 abdomen grey-brown. Under surface white; primaries clouded with grey and pale yellow. 

 Expanse of wings 22 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



