38 CATEPHUD^.— CATOCALID.*:. 



secondaries greyish brown with golden reflections ; a broad darker external border : body 

 whity brown ; collar darker brown, with a curved black liue on each side. Under surface 

 whity brown with golden reflections: primaries with a greyisli indication of the wedge-shaped 

 patch of the upper surface and a greyisli discal band : secondaries with a grey, almost 

 marginal, band : all the wings with grey discocellular spots. Expanse of wings, d 52 millim., 

 ? 40 millim. 



North India, Ceylon, and Sumatra. 



The male is not figured, as there is no Indian example in the Museum series ; it, however, 

 chiefly differs from the female in its shape, which agrees with that of B. decerns, and in its 

 densely hairy legs and longer body. 



CATEPHIIDiE. 



ARCTE, Koll. 

 (Cocytodes, Guen.) 



Arete nigrescens, sp. n. (Plate CX. fig. 8.) 



Allied to A. taprobana of Moore (from Ceylon and Sumatra) ; decidedly larger : the 

 primaries, with the exception of the apical patch, suffused with blue-black and sprinkled with 

 bluish-white scales; the apical patch is also darker than in Moore's figure, or than a 

 specimen in the Museum collection from Ceylon; outer margin more prominently denti- 

 culated : secondaries more prominently marked with bluish-white spots, and more distinctly 

 suffused with greyish green than in the Ceylon species; apical area quite black: thorax 

 longer and decidedly darker; abdomen much greener. Under surface smoky greyish brown, 

 I he costal, apical, and external areas sprinkled with white scales; black discocellular spots, 

 followed by a well-marked arched black band; a submarginal series of black spots, with 

 white > -shaped inner edges: primaries with a white longitudinal dash between the disco- 

 cellular spot and the arched band : secondaries with this band somewhat bracket-shaped and 

 partly edged externally with white dots; a large black patch at the anal angle : pectus bright 

 ochreous ; legs varied with grey and black ; venter black, with five rows of primrose-yellow 

 spots. Expanse of wings 84 millim. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale] . 



CATOCALID.E. 



CATOCALA, Ochs. 



Catocala prolifera. (Plate CX. fig. 9.) 

 Catocala prolifera, Walker, Cat. Lap. II. t. xiii. p. 1211. no. 62 (1857). 



Allied to C. elocata of Europe, bul the primaries decidedly broader; all the markings on 



