56 OXTDIID..E. 



ELLOPIA, Treit. 



Ellopia pulchra. (Plate CXIV. fig. 8.) 

 ELlopia pulchra, Butler, Ann. ij- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol.vi. p. 124. n. 27 (1880). 



Allied to E. formosa, but half as large again and somewhat different in pattern : wings 

 sericeous grey : primaries with the costal border, including two cuneiform patches of nearly 

 equal size, the subapical fringe and two spots near the base of the second median interspace 

 gamboge-yellow; subcostal area, base, and a broad oblique belt (only separated by an 

 oblique dusky line from the basal area) laky purplish, densely mottled with orange ; a discal 

 series of three or four purplish-edged orange spots between the second median branch and 

 the inner margin : secondaries with sericeous-white costal area ; abdominal area mottled 

 before the middle with laky cupreous ; a tapering, externally diffused, reddish-orange streak 

 from the abdominal margin to the end of the cell, confluent, at its commencement, with a 

 broad external border of the same colour, but which gradually breaks up into little reddish 

 striae as it recedes from the anal angle towards the costa : body laky red ; vertex of head and 

 antennae sulphur-yellow. Under surface sericeous creamy whitish ; the markings of the 

 upper surface seen indistinctly through the wings : primaries with sulphur-yellow costa and 

 ochraceous subapical area ; subapical fringe golden yellow ; rest of fringe and externo-discal 

 area cupreous : secondaries with the external border cupreous or dull golden. Expanse of 

 wings 56 millim. 



North-east Himalayas (Lidderdale). 



OMIZA, Walk. 



Omiza pachiaria. (Plate CXIV. figs. 9 & 10.) 



Omiza pachiaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Met. xx. p. 217 (1S60). 



Wings above bright chrome-yellow, mottled with grey, but much less strongly in the 

 male than the female; an oblique brown dash at basal third of costa; an acutely elbowed 

 oblique brownish line across the disk; discocellular spot grey, oval and suffused with 

 yellow in the male, rounded and with reddish centre in the female ; an apical spot, golden 

 brown in the male and grey in the female, in both sexes irrorated with pearl-grey scales; 

 a rounded spot of golden brown near the centre of external area in the male, in the 

 female replaced by ferruginous mottling which passes into a large patch of this colour, filling 

 up thi' lower half of the external area; in the female also the basal area is broadly tinted 

 with ferruginous : secondaries crossed in the middle by a brown line, the upper half of which 

 in the female is replaced by greyish ferruginous mottling, the external half of the wings in 

 this sex being also almost entirely filled up with this colour: body pale yellow, more or less 

 suffused with grey. Wings below bright gamboge-yellow, mottled with bright ochrcous 



