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oblique equidistant costal olivaceous clashes, followed by a 

 fourth rather nearer to the third ; the first of these dashes 

 forms the commencement of an irregular dusky subbasal line ; 

 mi oblique angulated ill-defined blackish line from inner 

 margin, where it commences in a blackish smudge, to apex, 

 where it terminates in a greyish-white furcate character re- 

 sembling the letter y ; disk beyond the oblique line clouded 

 with olivaceous aud marked with a large rounded greyish- 

 white spot and an oblique dash of the same colour ; external 

 area whitish in the centre ; an ill- defined blackish apical 

 marginal line ; fringe ferruginous : secondaries speckled with 

 dark grey, crossed near the base by a very ill-defined zigzag- 

 greyish line ; disk crossed by a pale-bordered greyish line : 

 head and antennas black ; abdomen very pale. Wings below 

 golden sandy yellow, speckled- with black, crossed by two 

 black lines corresponding to those of the upper surface, 

 but sharply defined and bordered here and there with ferrugi- 

 nous : primaries with the apex grey above the black line ; 

 costal clashes ferruginous, more or less black-speckled ; black 

 discocellular dots to all the wings : legs and venter black- 

 speckled ; knees and tarsi blackish. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 4 lines. 



Darj iling (Lidderdale) . 



Allied to . platypterata, " Chcerodes" translinquens, and 

 " Cheer odes " transjwnens. 



Ennomidae. 



Phcenix, gen. nov. 



Pyrinice affine genus, forma alarum simili ; ramis autem omnibus 

 medianis bene separatis (sccundo et tertio haud approximatis). 

 Gen. typ. P. iris. 



22. Phoenix iris, sp. n. 



Purple, sericeous; wings transversely striated with dull 

 lake-red, and crossed from apex of primaries to abdominal 

 margin of secondaries by a regular oblique pale green band 

 enclosing a sap-green stripe ; fringe dull lake-red : secon- 

 daries with the costal area pale brick-red ; abdomen with the 

 sides reddish and crossed by a pale yellowish band ; head red- 

 brown ; antennas with black pectinations. Under surface 

 bright brick-red, wings striated with grey ; fringe brown : 

 primaries with white internal area ; an abbreviated and ill- 

 defined oblique greyish streak from the apex. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Darj iling [Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



