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base of both wings hoary ; limulate black marks at end of cell of fore wing, and dark mark 

 below the apex. 



Allied to Egnasia [Saraca) porphyria, Butler, from Japan : the markings on upper side 

 much less distinct ; no white spot at end of cell of hind wing ; the medial band further from 

 the base. Closely allied to E. trimantesalis, which has the stigmata of fore wing better 

 marked, the underside not suffused with white, and no dark mark below the apex. 



THERMESIIDiE. 



Platyja exviola. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 18.) 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Male. Very dark brown, with a purplish gloss. Both wings with a broad purple exterior 

 band ; two series of white specks, one inside the band, one antecilial. Fore wing with an ochreous 

 blaek-margined amphora-shaped mark near the outer angle from the second median nervule 

 to above submedian nervure, with two white specks on the median nervules just inside it ; two 

 minute brown white-ringed spots beyond the cell ; a large, irregular, white-margined patch of 

 the ground-colour on the costa near the apex. Underside brown suffused with purplish grey ; 

 a series of postmedial white specks on the veins of both wings ; a purple streak from apex of 

 fore wing. Legs white-spotted ; some fulvous pectoral hairs. 



Capnodes fasciata. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 10.) 



Expanse f-1 i^o inch. 



Male. Grey. Both wings with patches of chestnut-brown on the disc and outer margin, 

 in some specimens very prominent, in others hardly traceable. Fore wing with five waved 

 black bands exteriorly margined with whitish — one siibbasal, one antemedial, one medial 

 curved out beyond the cell, one postmedial, the other submarginal. Both wings with ante- 

 cilial maculate black line. Underside paler, with an indistinct dark spot in cell of fore wing; 

 some specimens with lunule in cell of hind wing ; both wings with postmedial band. 



Allied to C. cremata. 



Mestleta quadrapex. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 15.) 



Expanse |^ inch. 



Female. Apex of fore wing with a round lobe. Fore wing ochreous ; outer area rich 

 chestnut; apical portion of costa flesh-coloured; apical lobe chocolate ; traces of subbasal and 

 antemedial narrow dark bands ; an inwardly-oblique purple band from below the apex to inner 



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