56 LIPAEID.E. 



Charnidas colon. (Plate CXL. figs. 3, 19.) 



Expanse, ^ IJ, ? Ij-lf inch. 



Male reddish brown. Female ochreous brown. Fore wing irrorated with black scales ; 

 two superposed black spots just beyond the cell, the lower one sometimes obsolete, sometimes 

 diffused along the median nervure ; a large black subapical patch situated below the lower 

 subcostal nervule, and extending below the first discoidal nervule. Hind wing of the same 

 colour as the fore wing in each sex, but paler and without the black scales. Underside 

 slightly darker. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen of the same colom* as the fore wing. 



A female from the western slopes is rather darker than specimens from the plateau. 

 Nearest to C. exclamationis, but a much browner insect, and with a dark subapical spot to 

 fore wing. 



Cliarnidas pallida. (Plate CXL. fig. 10.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Ochreous grey, with a slight fuscous suff'usion ; fore wing with some dark scales 

 below centre of cell ; the apical portion of costa and outer margin with some fuscous 

 maculate marks. Underside with the fuscous suffusion rather deeper. 



Laelia \uiiformis. (Plate CXL. figs. 4, 20.) 



Expanse, cJ Ij, ? If inch. 



Male. Fore wing uniform ochreous grey ; costa and cilia paler. Hind wing paler than 

 fore wing. Underside : fore wing suffused with fuscous except towards inner margin ; hind 

 wing slightly suff'used with fuscous towards costa. 



Female. Fore wing ochreous white, irrorated with black scales, which are thickest just 

 below median nervure. Hind wing and, underside paler, and without the black scales. 



Not very closely allied to ^ny other species of the genus. 



Artaxa suhfuscula (Plate CXL. figs. 5, 11.) 



Expanse, ^ 1^, ? l\ inch. 



Male uniform bright ochraceous. Female reddish brown ; both sexes with the fore wing 

 crossed by indistinct waved antemedial and postmedial pale bands. Male rather darker along 

 the costa of fore wing on the underside. Female with anal tuft smoky black. 



Artaxa variegata. (Plate CXL. fig. 6.) 

 Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Fore wing pale brown with pale naiTow bands, and dark broad bands formed by 



the ground-coloiir being powdered with dark scales ; basal area pale brown, followed by a 



dark band one fourth from base ; a narrow pale band, then a broad dark medial band with 



