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ABRAXAS, Leach. 

 Abraxas pusilla. (Plate CXIX. fig. 9.) 

 Abraxas pusilla, Butler, Ann. $ May. Nat. Hist. sor. 5, vol. vi. p. 225. n. 59 (1SS0). 



Allied to A. leopardinata, but only of about two thirds the size: primaries with the 

 central interrupted band expanded into a broad grey nebula occupying about a third of the 

 wing; discal series of spots double, more or less confluent, and forking towards the costa; 

 marginal spots regular and generally confluent : secondaries with both the discal and 

 marginal series of spots small and regular. Expanse of wings 38 millini. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale) , Nepal. 



There is no doubt of the distinctness of this little species. A. leopardinata, according to 

 Walker, was an assemblage of three or four quite distinct species. 



ICTEKODES, Butl. 



Icterodes conspersa. (Plate CXIX. fig. 10.) 

 Abraxas conspersa, Butler, Ann. J- Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. •'.. vol. vi. p. 225. n. 60 (1880). 



Wings sericeous -white : primaries above spotted and speckled with dark olive-green, 

 the spots forming five bands — the first basal, indistinct; the second subbasal, formed of three 

 rounded spots, immediately followed by two larger, almost lunate, spots and a rounded one 

 on inner margin ; third and fourth each of two closely approximated series, which combine 

 into one band towards the inner margin; fifth formed of three series — the first of oval 

 submarginal spots, the second of confluent lunate marginal spots, the third of semicircular 

 spots on the fringe : secondaries with a discoeellular spot, one or two dots towards base of 

 abdominal margin, a discal interrupted series of two or three small subcostal and one or 

 two large abdominal spots ; a submarginal series, a marginal series of elongate spots, 

 and a series alternating with the latter upon the fringe, all blackish: body ochrcous, 

 spotted with black. Primaries below with all the markings sericeous grey. Expanse of 

 wings 62 millim. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale) . 



Allied to /. lapsariaia, but smaller, the white intervals between the bands of primaries 

 mottled all over with olive dots, and the central bands of large spots rather more sinuous. 

 This and the following species, though destitute of the bright yellow colouring of tin- known 

 forms of Icterodes, correspond in structure with that genus. 



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