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veins and terminal line dark brown ; fringe paler ; the 

 abdominal half of wing with some pale, down-turned, silky 

 hair. 



Underside of both wings pale ochreous. Fore wing 

 clouded with grey except for a pale apical patch and slight 

 pale subcostal and teiminal borders ; costa with alternate 

 pale and dark spots ; fringe tipped with brown ; a large 

 diffused black spot on discocellulars ; some long pale hair 

 in cell. Hind wing with a large, rounded, black-brown spot 

 on discocellulars and slight brown irroration distally to it, 

 between SC^ and IVF. 



Bidi, Sarawak, 1907-1908 (C. J. Brooks). 



Somewhat recalls walkeri, Beth.-Baker, from New Guinea, 

 and irrorata, Hmpsu., from Sikkim, but is abundantly 

 distinct from both. 



26. Blosyris arpi, sp. n. (PL V. fig. 1.) 



? . — lOOnint. 



Head, thorax above, and palpus whitish mixed with pale 

 chestnut, a chestnut band just behind the tegulse ; abdomen 

 above pale brown clothed with rough whitish hairs ; body 

 beneath ochreous ; legs ochreous, the tarsi browner, with 

 pale tip to each joint ; a patch of deep black scales at base 

 of mid-tibia on outer side. 



Fore wing above violet-whitish, thickly irrorated with 

 chestnut or purplish-brown,* especially along basal three- 

 fifths of costa, in an oblique patch at apex, on termen behind 

 R^, and between postmedial and subterminal lines from 

 behind M^ to hind margin. Oblique whitish subbasal and 

 antemedial streaks on costa, defined by dark shading, the 

 lines otherwise almost obsolete, the antemedial reappearing 

 as an inwardly oblique, crenulate, grey streak across fold and 

 a grey mark, further from body, before hind margin ; 

 orbicular a very small, elliptical, grey-outlined ring ; reni- 

 form an elongate circle, outlined in black except on part of 

 terminal edge; three or four outwardly oblique, deep chest- 

 nut streaks on costa between ante- and postmedial lines, 

 reappearing as paler chestnut lines before the hind margin ; 

 a small white patch on costa between dark area and origin 

 of postmedial line at 29 mm., outwardly oblique and indis- 

 tinct behind costa, then brown, dentate, distally pale-edged ; 

 an ill-defined whitish subterminal line, more clearly visible 

 behind K^ where it is defined on inner side by the patch 

 before hind margin and on the outer by a diffused ochreous 

 shade; a double, dark brown, crenulate terminal line; 



