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area between the latter and the external area bright emerald- 

 green, forming an irregular belt constricted below the middle ; 

 external area limited internally by a sinuous ferruginous line, 

 sandy-yellowish or testaceous, traversed by a dentate-sinuate 

 submarginal ferruginous line ; fringe brownish : secondaries 

 pale stramineous, with pinky brownish fringe : thorax bright 

 green, the shoulders and a dorsal streak brown, abdomen tes- 

 taceous. Under surface of wings sordid sulphur-yellow, the 

 borders slightly tinted with stramineous, fringe brown : pri- 

 maries with a ferruginous subcostal diffused streak : body 

 testaceous ; anterior coxse and femora ferruginous, tibiee 

 banded with purplish brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 1 line. 



Bhotan {Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



5. Miresa bracteata, sp. n. 



Primaries with the costal area olive-brown washed with 

 lilacine, interno-basal area fulvous internally, gradually sha- 

 ding into ferruginous, and lastly into olivaceous towards the 

 median vein ; the veins across it indicated by lilacine grey 

 scales ; a zigzag metallic silver stripe from the subcostal vein 

 near the apex to just beyond the middle of inner margin, the 

 inner angle of the zigzag confluent with a large cuneiform 

 patch of silver just below the end of the cell ; disk beyond 

 the silver stripe olive-green, crossed by pale sericeous veins ; 

 external border dark red-brown, densely sprinkled with 

 metallic plumbaginous scales ; fringe red-brown : secondaries 

 of the male stramineous, slightly washed with dull rose-colour 

 in front ; of the female rosy-brownish, with whitish veins and 

 external border, stramineous abdominal border, and ochraceous 

 fringe : thorax bright chrome-yellow ; antennas and abdomen 

 orange-yellow or bright ochreous. Under surface red-brown, 

 with the internal areas of the wings and tail (particularly the 

 caudal tuft of the male) ochraceous ; legs chrome-yellow. 

 Expanse of wings, <£ 1 inch 5 lines, ? 1 inch 7 lines. 



Darjiling {Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



Nycteolidse. 



6. Tyana speculatrix, sp. n. 



Primaries above bright green ; costal margin very slenderly 

 lilacine grey ; a bright saffron-yellow basal spot on which are 

 two red dots ; base of inner margin snow-white, subbasal por- 

 tion of the same margin yellowish, crossed by a dark red 

 angular marking ; centre of the wing occupied by an oblique 

 patch composed of three circular spots, the first and last stra- 



