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D AX AT A, ll'u/k. 

 Daxata glaucescens. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 4.) 



cf . Primaries above sericeous lilaciiie grc}-, traversed by irregular dark brown lines and 

 bands ; costal border dark brown, crossed by grey bars to beyond the middle, beyond which 

 it is spotted with transverse white dashes ; a siibbasal irregular band, a central belt, anil a 

 discal band brown, clouded with grey, edged with black-brown ; the intervals between these 

 bands traversed by single black-brown lines; reniform spot B-shaped on the left wing, partlv 

 orange and partly sericeous grey ; a black sinuated marginal line : secondaries sericeous 

 smoky brown: body smoky brown; the abdomen greyish at the sides. Under snrfare 

 smoky greyish brown; wings with cupreous reflections, costal borders densely irioratcd witli 

 whitish, interrupted by one or two transverse bars of the ground-colour ; a slender sinuated 

 black marginal line; costal margin of primaries with four white dots beyond the middle; 

 cell and veins of secondaries irrorated with whitish ; fringe greyish, with a darker central 

 stripe and white basal line. Expanse of wings 25 millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



Daxata lilacina. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 5.) 



2 ■ Primaries above sericeous lilac, partly suffused with brown ; the basal fourth crossed 

 by three closely approximated, irregular dark brown stripes ; reniform spot outlined in dark 

 brown, and followed by two almost parallel irregularly angulated stripes, beyond which is a 

 tapering brown band, dotted on the costa with white, and followed by a series of black 

 lunules, almost parallel to outer margin ; a marginal series of conical black spots : secon- 

 daries sericeous dark brown, crossed by a slightly darker discal band, and with dusky conical 

 marginal spots : thorax dark brown ; abdomen sericeous brown. Underside smoky brown ; 

 wings shining, with cupreous reflections ; the costa of primaries and whole of secondaries 

 irrorated with daiker scales and crossed on the disc Ijy two darker bars ; fringe greyish, 

 undulated (so that it appears to be spotted with darker spots), with a slender whitish basal 

 line : body below paler than the wings. Expanse of wings 23 millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



In both of these species the palpi are shorter than in the type of the genus. 



GATHYNIA, JVa/k. 

 Gathynia simulans. (Plate CXXXIII. figs. 6, 7.) 



Primaries whity brown, slightly tinted with pink and irrorated with grey ; two greyish 

 patches with blackish edges and cupreous-brown borders representing a central belt (as in 

 Dirades theclata) ; costal margin mottled with blackish ; a ])laekish-edged whitish marginal 



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