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wing pale, with traces of dark margins ; a diffused blackish spot beyond it on each side of 

 third median ncrvule : hind wing with the postmedial band pale and very indistinct and 

 marked with small black points on the nervules ; no submarginal band ; cilia blackish at 

 emargination of fore wing below apex. Underside rather brighter yellow ; outer marginal 

 area reddish. 



Azata? emarginata. (Plate CLI. fig. 14.) 



Expanse f-^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing emarginate below apex ; purplish grey with a few dark stri» ; a 

 dark lunulate, slightly curved postmedial band ; traces of a dark submarginal band ; a 

 chestnut patch on the outer margin below apes ; cilia whitish, dark at apex, median 

 nervules, and outer angle. One specimen has a pale spot on a chestnut patch at end of cell, 

 and the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. Hind wing with a slight hook just below the 

 apex ; the outer margin almost straight from the hook to anal angle ; pale, thickly mottled 

 and striated with reddish-brown, and with dark brown near outer margin ; a dark maculate 

 postmedial line ; cilia ochreous white, black at hook. Underside paler ; the markings 

 obsolete or indistinct ; basal area of hind wing white. 



Azata? palliata. (Plate CLI. figs. 5, 11.) 



Expanse S li' ? I2 inch. 



Apex of fore wing hooked and acute ; outer margin slightly rounded, not emarginate 

 below apex. 



Male. Antennre ciliate on both sides ; basal area whitish, thickly mottled with pale 

 purple-grey and tinged with olive-brown ; outer area olive-brown ; indistinct anteraedial and 

 submarginal dark transverse lines; a series of antecilial black specks; cilia reddish brown. 

 Hind wing similar to fore wing but the antemedial band more distinct ; a dark spot at end 

 of cell ; four reddish-brown specks on the nervules towards inner margin ; apical area like 

 basal area and not reddish brown ; submarginal line on apical area dark, on olive-brown area 

 pale. Underside similar to upperside, but outer areas not olive-brown, a dark spot at end of 

 cell of fore wing ; a white subapical spot ; submarginal band of fore wing obsolete. 



Female. Antennse simple. Uniform whitish grey irrorated with dark specks ; antemedial 

 band very indistinct; a postmedial band of reddish-brown specks on the nervules of both 

 wings ; submarginal band obsolete. One specimen has a large dark patch between second 

 and third median nervules of fore wins;. 



