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dentated dusky stripe ; marginal line blackish ; fringe wliite, 

 spotted with black : primaries with ochreous basal area : bodj 

 below blackish, pectus more or less clothed with greyish hairs; 

 tarsi more or less distinctly banded with grey. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Shillong, Assam, and Darjiling. 



On the upper surface this species much resembles Chryso- 

 rithrum^ Allotna, and Catocala, the primaries especially re- 

 minding one of Walker^s " Catocala " albi/ascia, a species 

 apparently referable to the genus Zalissa ; in structure and 

 the pattern of the under surface it agrees far better with 

 Trisula. 



Acontiidse. 



10. Ajjsarasa liturata^ sp. n. 



Primaries above sulphur-yellow, costal margin white ; all 

 the borders crossed by black-edged metallic blue-green lituraj 

 as follows — two near the base of the costal border, two at 

 basal fourth, one runnlngobliquely from just before the middle 

 of the costa to the end of the cell, where it unites with an 

 irregularly co-shaped line of the same colour interrupted by a 

 shining rose-red discoidal dash, three curved lines on the costal 

 border beyond the cell, the first very short, a dot followed by 

 a zigzag line just before apex, and an oblique V-shaped 

 marking at apex ; markings of the outer border becoming 

 brown upon the fringe, the first and third being short dashes, 

 the second formed of two dashes united by a <-shaped 

 marking, the fourth and fifth long dashes, nearly united inter- 

 nally by a metallic green luuule ; on the internal border two 

 <-shaped markings before the middle, an oblique line beyond 

 the middle, and three reversed oblique lines close to external 

 angle ; at the base of the median area is a large 3-shaped 

 marking, partly metallic green and partly rose-red, and on 

 the second median interspace two rose-red transverse spots, 

 dotted at each end with metallic blue-black : secondaries 

 semitransparent sericeous white, with sulphur-yellow borders 

 and veins : head, collar, front of thorax and of tegul^ sulphur- 

 yellow, transversely striped and spotted with bluish and pur- 

 plish black, remainder of body white. Under surface cream- 

 colour, sericeous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



($ , Camaroons ; ? , Old Calabar. 



Ev^idently congeneric with A. radiata and A.Jijurata, but 

 more beautiful in colouring. 



