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the uiulerside the primaries are <jroyer without the pinkish eostal suffusion; tlic discocoUuhir 

 blackish spot is bounded on botii sides by whitish spots, and the diseal stripe is more arclicd : 

 the secondaries are considerably whiter, without pinkish costal suffusion, and the diseal stripe 

 is further from the outer margin. Expanse of wings 31 niillini. 

 Dharmsala; at sugar. 



EPUNDA, Duj^. 



Epunda mamestrina. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 5.) 



Allied to E. nigra, of the same form and pattern, but in colouring more like Valeria 

 oleagina : primaries smoky grey, with black lines as in E. nigra ; the costa varied with 

 whitish spots to the end of the cell, and with three white dots beyond it ; reniform spot white, 

 black-edged and with greyish inner streak; the dashes at the extremity of the denticles ahjng 

 the outer edge of the central belt dotted with white ; a submarginal series of black spots 

 enclosing white crescents ; fringe dotted with white ; a bright yellow spot terminating the 

 l)lack-edgcd abbreviated subbasal stripe : secondaries more sordid than in E. nigra, all the 

 veins, border, and submarginal stripe being more decidedly smoky grey : body dark smoky 

 grey ; the thorax also irrorated with black. Under surface rather darker than in E. nigra, 

 with a decided dark grey diseal line through all the wings : primaries without discoccllular 

 spot : secondaries with black discoccllular lunule. Expanse of wings 49 millim. 



Dliarnisala. 



CANWA, Walk.* 



Camia splendens. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 4) 



Canna splendens, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18SS, p. 412. 



Allied to C. pulchripicta; the green markings bluer, bordered with silver and edged with 

 black ; the green spot near base of inner margin larger, and bounded internally by a quadrate 

 black spot enclosing a white dot; the base itself white; the angular brown band broathn-, 

 more irregular, more olivaceous, varied with black and green ; a pure white dash at the end 

 of the cell ; the olivaceous stripe from the elbow of the brown band to the costa widened and 

 diffused; apex blue-green, bounded internally by a white line; the brown ocelloid spots 

 replaced by white-edged black spots with white pupils, but followed by brown spots on tlie 

 fringe ; the remainder of the fringe is green, tipped here and there with brown : secondaries 

 peai'ly white, external border bronzy grey, wide.vt towards apex, tapering to a mere line at 

 external angle ; centre of external margin pale ; fringe white : head green, white between the 



* lucorrectly placed in the Acontiida; by Walker ; it is doubtful whether it is distinct from the 

 European genus Jaxpidea. 



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