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an oblique dusky line from the basal area) laky purplish 

 densely mottled with orange ; a discal series of three or four 

 purplish-edged orange spots between the second median 

 branch and the inner margin : secondaries with sericeous white 

 costal area ; abdominal area mottled before the middle with 

 laky cupreous ; a tapering, externally diffused, reddish-orange 

 streak from the abdominal margin to the end of the cell, con- 

 fluent, at its commencement, with a broad external border of 

 the same colour, but which gradually breaks up into little 

 reddish strige as it recedes from the anal angle towards the 

 costa : body laky red ; vertex of head and antennas sulphur- 

 yellow. Under surface sericeous creamy whitish ; the mark- 

 ings of the upper surface seen indistinctly through the wings : 

 primaries with sulphur-yellow costa and ochraceous subapical 

 area; subapical fringe golden-yellow; rest of fringe and ex- 

 terno- discal area cupreous : secondaries with the external 

 border pale cupreous or dull golden. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 2 lines. 



N.E. Himalayas (Lidderdale). 



28. Orsonoba pallida, sp. n. 



Allied to 0. clelia*, but much smaller, the outer margin of 

 the primaries much less sinuated, not at all so below the third 

 median branch ; altogether paler, the prevailing colour being 

 creamy white ; costal half of primaries grey, the markings 

 very nearly as in 0. clelia ; all the bands testaceous, the 

 oblique dashes across the costal border of the primaries 

 blackish brown ; secondaries with the hyaline spot at the end 

 of the cell elongated, transverse, margined with testaceous 

 instead of black. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 



N.E. Himalayas (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



29. Auxima restitutaria, var. wgrota. 



Much smaller than the typical form, olivaceous brown in- 

 stead of red, and with a much more feeble rosy reflection ; the 

 markings, however, all similar. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 6-10 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



This form was well represented in Dr. Lidderdale's series, 

 and was separated by him from the typical A. restitutaria : it 

 may, perhaps ; be a race of that species ; but I am rather 

 inclined to regard it as merely a common variety. 



* Cramer, Pap. Exot. ill. pi. cclxxxviii. figs. B, C. 



