94 ASOPIID.E. 



the centre blackish, remainder pale creamy yellow : body black, with the whole of the divisions 

 outlined in pale yellow ; abdomen ochraceous at the sides. Under surface chrome-yellow ; 

 costa of primaries black-edged and brown-speckled to beyond the middle ; a large purplish- 

 black Q-sliaped patch at the end of the cell ; external border, excepting a spot connected 

 with the ground-colour at external angle, shiniug dark coppcr-bronn : fringe much more 

 shiny and greyer than, above : secondaries with the base yellow, otherwise nearly as above, 

 excepting that the dark portions are browner and shot with fiery cupreous and purple tints : 

 palpi, collar, and under surface of anterior femora and tibiie white ; centre of pectus and of 

 venter brownish. Expanse of wings 14 millim. 

 Dharmsala ; a day-flier. 



Allied to P. fcnnosana. 



ASOPIID.E. 



DANAGA, Moore. 



Danaga picata. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 17.) 



Wings grey, sprinkled with blackish atoms : primaries crossed before the basal third by 

 a black stripe; a small pure white transverse spot in the cell, followed by a Q-shaped blackish 

 marking ; a white band broken into two portions and bounded by a white-edged undulated 

 discal black line ; base of fringe white si^otted with black, outer half black with two white 

 patches : secondaries with a Q-shaped marking at end of cell connected by a black line with 

 abdominal margin ; a short irregular white band from costa beyond the cell connected by a 

 white line with abdominal margin, and followed by a white-edged undulated black line; 

 fringe white, spotted with black at base ; otherwise blackish on apical half, white with an anal 

 blackish spot on anal half: body dark grey: antenme and proboscis pearly white; bead 

 whitish ; abdomen with pure white edges to the segments. Wings below nearly as above : 

 body below whitish; legs pearly white. Expanse of wings 17 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Danaga biformis. (Plate CXXXV. figs. 2, 3.) 



r? . Sericeous smoky brown; fringes pale ochreous, with a central dark grey patch, a 

 central scries of partly confluent black spots, apex of primaries dark grey ; costa of primaries 

 pale ochreous, crossed by seven black spots, the fifth and sixth annular; lines of central belt 

 very irregular, blackish, the centre of the belt occupied by a ti-ansverse ochreous band inter- 

 rupted in front by the diseoidal spots, which are black and annular; inner line of the central 

 belt bordered with ochreous; a marginal ochreous spot near external angle: secondaries 

 black at base, followed by a broad, very irregular, externally blaekish-edgcd belt enclosing a 



