8 FIDONIID.E. 



patch of similar character: head yellow; collar white ; anus whitish, rest of body above 

 reddish. Under surface cream -colour, the discal patches of the upper surface represented 

 by similar smoky grey patches. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 

 North India (James). 



Both of Walker's types were received in the same collection, which was probably made in 

 Assam. 



Plutodes discigera. (Plate CXIX. fig. 2.) 

 Plutodes discigera, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 53 (1880). 



Wings above citron-yellow : primaries with a semicircular basi-internal patch of coffee- 

 red, bordered with plumbaginous, and continuous with a broad triangular patch which 

 occupies the basi-abdominal two fifths of the secondaries ; all the wings with a large oval 

 discal patch of coffee-red, crossed by a zigzag darker red line and bordered with plum- 

 baginous : body red-brown ; back of head, collar, and anal tuft pale yellow. Under surface 

 pale creamy yellow, all the wings with a large chocolate-brown oval patch occupying nearly 

 the whole of the disk : secondaries with pale reddish-brown basi-abdominal area. Expanse of 

 wings 32 millim. 



India. 



This species was placed by Walker with P. cyclaria. 



Plutodes flavescens. (Plate CXIX. fig. 3.) 

 Plutodes flavescens, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 54 (1SS0). 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but the wings of a lemon-yellow colour, the discal 

 patches comparatively smaller, more rounded in form, the line across them considerably 

 more zigzag, forming in the primaries ten, instead of three, angles ; body redder. Expanse 

 of wings 34 millim. 



North-east Himalayas (ladder dale). 



Plutodes exquisita. (Plate CXIX. fig. 1.) 



Plutodes exquisita, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 55 (1880). 



Primaries above sulphur-yellow, with sericeous costal border; outer margin and fringe 

 citron-yellow; an irregularly quadrate basi-internal rust-red spot with blackish margin; 

 disk almost wholly occupied by a broad rust-red belt, washed with pinky reddish internally 

 and ochraceous externally, and traversed by a darker zigzag line, not reaching the costal 

 margin, but edged at its upper extremity with plumbaginous, bordered internally by two black 

 lines and externally by a single black line flecked with plumbaginous : secondaries with the 



