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the middle, and brownish towards costa, in certain lights showing the black spots of the 

 upper surface ; a marginal scries of black dots : secondaries cream-coloured, rather densely 

 irrorated with browu and with a submarginal series of squamosa brown lunules ; discocellular 

 and marginal black dots ; fringe slightly yellowish, traversed by a grey line : pectus and legs 

 dull stramineous ; venter cream-coloui-ed. Expanse of wings 11 millim. 



"Laka, above Dharmsala, 11,000 feet; came to light in the tent, June." 



Only one example of this very distinct species was obtained ; we have a second specimen 

 from Afghanistan in which the primaries are of a golden-oehreous colour, with less defined 

 bands and smaller black spots, and the secondaries of a purer white, with pale yellow fringe. 

 The species comes neai'est to A. obUquaria, which varies in a similar manner. 



ZEEENID/E. 



ICTERODES, Bull. 

 Icterodes conspersa. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 6.) 



Allied to /. sordicla ; difl'ering in its more uniformly silver-grey primaries, the blackish 

 spots on which are more or less confluent ; the " reniform " patch forming part of the central 

 belt ; it also differs from I. sordida, transectata, ajaAfraterna in having the pale bands dotted 

 over with more or less numerous black spots ; the basal two fifths of the secondaries grey and 

 the central scries of blackish spots less curved. Expanse of wings 52 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Two damaged specimens and fragments of a third were all that Mr. Hocking^s collection 

 contained of this interesting species. 



MICRABEAXAS, gen. nov. 



Nearest to Abraxas tenebrosaria ; but the antenna; formed as in the genus Ndcynda ; 

 instead of being pectinated or ciliated, they are flattened and tapering. 



Micrabraxas puuctigera. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 7.) 



General aspect and size of Larentia kollariuria, but in pattern more like Abraxas tene- 

 brosaria : primaries grey, clouded with brownish, shot with pale brassy yellow, densely 

 irrorated with black and grey and traversed by five series of black spots, the last two series 

 formed of white-edged conical spots ; the fourth series interrupted, the fifth continuous and 

 marginal ; three black spots at the end of the cell; fringe grey, with basal and central zigzag 

 yellow lines : secondaries slightly sericeous, creamy white mottled with brownish grey ; a 



