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olive-brown border, tapering at each end; fringe ferruginous: se- 
condaries dull brick-red, the costal area and base testaceous, abdominal 
area reddish testaceous, anal area suffused with whitish ; a central 
transverse straight grey streak from inner margin to end of cell ; an 
abbreviated discal grey line, and a brownish anal submarginal litura : 
body above brownish, with usual dark markings; face whitish : wings 
below pale ferruginous, disk of primaries browner in tint ; two ill- 
defined discal continuous ferruginous lines; primaries with inner 
margin silky, testaceous or bronzy ; outer margin with a broad taper- 
ing whitish border : secondaries with basal and abdominal areas some- 
what whitish: thorax below and base of abdomen deep ferruginous ; 
remaining segments of abdomen greyish. Expanse of wings 4 inches 
2 lines. 
N.W. Himalayas. Type, coll. F. Moore. 
Allied to the preceding, but entirely distinct. 
36. AMBULYX TURBATA, 0. sp. 
Primaries above rich castaneous ; a broad central greyish band, 
margined on both sides by indistinct zigzag brown lines from sub- 
costal nervure above end of cell to inner margin; a greenish grey 
spot on lower discocellular ; disk clouded with blackish ; outer mar- 
gin with broad coffee-brown border, tapering at apex, but not at 
external angle, margined internally, excepting towards apex, by an 
orange line edged within with whitish and bounded by four semi- 
circular olivaceous spots, margined towards apex by a dusky-edged 
pearly line: secondaries almost as in A. liturata: body red-brown ; 
head greyish, with red-brown crest : wings below much like A. seri- 
ceipennis, but redder and darker: body bright ochraceous, varied 
with reddish ; palpi and prothorax reddish orange. Expanse of wings 
4 inches 7 lines. 
Darjeeling. Type, coll. F. Moore. 
Var. Smaller, brighter in colour ; primaries with two central and 
two discal transverse zigzag lines, all distinct ; submarginal semicir- 
cular spots less marked, blending at their bases into an undulated 
fascia; secondaries much brighter in colour, with the transverse lines 
much blacker; wings below transversely mottled with distinct grey 
spots. Expanse of wings 4 inches 1 line. 
Canara, S. India. Coll. F. Moore. 
The most beautiful species in the genus, with the exception of 
A. rubricosa; it is allied to A. sericeipennis. 
Subfamily SmeRINTHINE. 
Genus Bastana, Walker. 
37. BasIANA EXUSTA, 0. sp. 
Allied to B. deucalion: primaries rosy greyish, basal area pale 
slaty grey, covered at base by testaceous tufts; three parallel dark 
grey zigzag lines across the middle of the cell from costa to inner 
margin; two dusky-edged parallel zigzag discal olivaceous bars from 
costa to inner margin; apex blackish, between it and outer band 
