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very slender, bordered internally with pale brown, externally 

 with a slender whitish line, and forming- a series of well- 

 defined black spots upon the veins ; a bifid, white, subapical 

 spot and a marginal series of black spots : secondaries crocus- 

 yellow ; a large, rounded, black spot at the end of the cell ; 

 a clavate subapical black streak ; external border, excepting 

 at apex and anal area, sap-green, speckled with black, and 

 traversed by a very indistinct, partially blackish-edged, 

 whitish dentate-sinuate line ; a marginal series of elongated 

 black spots : body above sap-green, yellowish in front ; 

 abdomen with yellow sides. Under surface of wings sericeous 

 crocus-yellow; a large jet-black patch at the end of each cell, 

 followed in the primaries by an abbreviated white belt ; these 

 wings also with a black spot below the origin of the first 

 median branch, external area broadly black but not so 

 intense as on the two spots, a white patch at apex and 

 another at the external angle, fringe spotted with white and 

 grey : secondaries with a spot on the first median interspace ; 

 the subapical black streak as above ; a marginal series of 

 small black spots ; fringe greenish, spotted with blackish : 

 pectus cream-coloured, yellow at the sides ; tibia3 and tarsi 

 banded with black ; venter crocus-yellow. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 4 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



Allied to H. lecpardinata of Moore. 



33. Hypochroma vigens, sp. n. 



Sap-green* ; wings transversely striated with slender darker 

 lines, fringe tipped with rose-colour : primaries crossed by 

 the two ordinary black lines, which are very slender and 

 bordered with reddish on one side and whitish on the other ; 

 discocellulars slenderly black ; disk beyond the outer undu- 

 lated black line reddish, crossed by a series of diffused oliva- 

 ceous spots followed by white dots ; a white apical patch 

 stained here and there with green ; a slender undulated black 

 marginal line : secondaries with the outer undulated black 

 line as in the primaries, with reddish internal and white 

 external margins ; discocellulars blackish ; a black undulated 

 marginal line ; an interrupted undulated white submarginal 

 line : centre of thorax and dorsal abdominal tufts tinted with 

 pink, each tuft placed in the centre of a slender, blackish, 

 ^-shaped marking. Under surface sericeous creamy white ; 

 wings crossed by a broad, irregular, yellowish-edged, dark 

 brown discal belt : primaries with a diffused streak con- 

 necting the belt with the outer margin upon the radial inter- 



* The typo is soruewkat faded ; but the green colour can still be seen 

 with the help of a lens. 



