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edged dusky line from submcdian vein; fringe as in primaries : thorax rosy brown, groyisli in 

 the centre; head and palpi slightly redder; abdomen bronze-brown. Under surface greyish, 

 with golden-bronze reflections; costal borders slightly rosy ; discoccllular spots and a discal 

 curved stripe grey; fringes slightly paler than on the upper surface: upper surface of tibiaj 

 blackish. Expanse of wings 29 raillim. 

 Kiilu. 



This sjieeies somewhat reminds one of the Chilian Bkpharocerus roscllus, Blanch. 

 Mr. Hocking only obtained one example of it. 



HERCYNID^. 



HELIOTHELA, Guen. 



Heliothela pusilla. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 15.) 



Primaries sericeous, dark cupreous brown, sprinkled in certain lights with shining bluish- 

 plumbaginous scales ; the reniform spot of the same colour; the central belt indicated by two 

 irregular black lines partly relieved by pale spots, the costal s^iot of the second series creamy 

 white : secondaries black-brown, with a large bright oehreous patch extending from the base 

 to beyond the cell, and enclosing a conspicuous subcuneiform black spot ; costal area greyish : 

 body black. Primaries below dark sericeous brown, slightly purplish at apex in certain lights ; 

 inner border greyish white ; base whitish ; a small subbasal pale golden tuft ; an oblique white 

 baud from costa beyond the middle ; fringe dark grey, with a pale basal line : secojidaries 

 nearly as above, but the basal third of eosta oehreous" and the remainder of costa black : body 

 below pale bronze-brown. Expanse of wings 11 millim. 



Dharmsala ; a day-flier. 



ENNYCHIIDiE. 



PORPHYRITIS, Hiibn. 



Porphyritis maculata. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 16.) 



Primaries dark purplish brown; orbicular spot small, oehreous, placed between two very 

 irregular zigzag oehreous bands sprinkled with red scales ; the second of these bands is formed 

 by the union of two unequal spots by means of a narrow oblique stripe of the same colour; 

 fringe tipped with silvery white on apical half, and with a continuous black subbasal stripe : 

 secondaries black ; a subbasal trifid oehreous patch and an oblique central malleiform oehreous 

 band ; a small submargiual oehreous lunule ; fringe with the basal half, apex, and a patch in 



