92 PTEALID.E. 



beyond the central belt streaked with blood-red ; an oblique metallic silver bar bounding the 

 upper two thirds of the central belt internally and a tapering silver dash from costa bounding 

 the upper third externally; the costal margin between, these two silver markings spotted with 

 pale metallic gold; the outer edge of the belt is indicated below the silver dash by a pale 

 sinuous line bordered on both sides with chocolate ; fringe lilacine, shading into rosy cupreous 

 and with a dark brown basal stripe : secondaries with the basal third purplish lilac, and 

 bounded externally by a slender sigmoidal silvery-lilac line ; central belt cupreous brown, 

 enclosing a small blackish and lilacine ocelloid spot towards costa, and bounded externally by 

 a subangulated undulated black and silvery lilac line followed by a cupreous-brown stripe ; 

 external area lilac, glaucous in the centre ; a blackish apical submarginal streak and two or 

 three subanal cupreous-brown lunules; fringe much as in primaries: head and collar dull 

 clay-coloured; thorax purple; abdomen greyish brown. Wings below shining silvery, with 

 indications of the colouring and pattern of the upper surface ; body below pale golden-brown. 

 Expanse of wings 22 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar : a rare species. 



This is the most beautiful Pyral'is hitherto described; we have two examples of it in the 

 iluseum from Yezo, and ]\Ir. Hocking o])tained four at Dharmsala. It is evidently a local 

 representative of P. ref/alis, but the golden colouring extends over a much greater portion of 

 the primaries. 



EUCLITA, Hiibn. 



Euclita dharinsalae. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 13.) 



Allied to P. plaiijiiiitris, of the same colours, but rather smaller; the central belt of 

 ])riniaries one third narrower, its inner edge showing no trace of angulation, its outer edge 

 much more oblique, slightly bisinuate; basal half of secondaries whitish, the central white 

 line more irregular than in P. phiti/r/iitris, undulated. Expanse of wings 20-2G millim. 



Dharmsala. 



This appears to be a much rarer species than P. phifipiiitris. 



Euclita fortis. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 11.) 



One of the largest species in the genus, with smooth densely-scaled porrectcd jialpi, 

 somewhat as in E.rnhidaVis but more robust and less deflpxed. Primaries rosy flesh-coloured, 

 so densely irroratcd witli dark grey atoms as to appear to be rosy brown ; central belt slightlv 

 darker than the basal and external areas, occupying about a third of the wing, wider on costal 

 than on iniu'r margin, and with slightly sinuous pale borders, dotted on the costa with whitish ; 

 discocellular veinkt bliukish ; fringe pale buff, tipped and banded witli daik grey: secondaries 

 pale sericeous bronze-brown, changing in certain lights to grey ; a central abbreviated jialc- 



