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spots below the apex and above the posterior angle, bordered by an 

 inner whitish line ; some very indistinct whitish lines obliquely cross- 

 ing the disk : hind wing pale cinereous along the anterior border ; 

 some dark streaks from abdominal margin, and a whitish line ex- 

 tending upward from middle of posterior margin. Ciha whitish, 

 with blackish, inner line and streaks. Palpi, head, and thorax black. 

 Abdomen testaceous. Underside : fore wing with small black obli- 

 que discal spot and spots on the middle of the costa : hind wing with 

 discal spot and outer transverse indistinct line of points. 



Expanse IjL inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. 



Genus Sauris, Guen. 

 Sauris dectjssata, n. sp. (PI. XXXIII. fig. 10.) 



Female bright green : hind wing and abdomen uniform cinereous 

 brown : fore wing with a medial transverse band of diifused black 

 lunular lines enclosing a small discal spot ; base of the wing and ex- 

 terior border with narrow black less-distinct lines ; two short longi- 

 tudinal black streaks below the apex ; a marginal row of black-pointed 

 lunules, and an intermediate outer row of marks like the letter X, 

 which cross the cilia ; costal margin ochreous. Antennae ochreous, 

 black-spotted. Palpi, head, and thorax bright green. Underside 

 cinereous brown, with indistinct blackish costal streaks, discal mark, 

 and outer transverse wavy line. Legs black, white-spotted. 



Expanse If inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. 



Genus Melanippe, Dup. 

 Melanippe catenaria, n. sp. (PI. XXXIII. fig. 9.) 



Male ferruginous brown : fore wing with a broad partly transverse 

 oblique whitish medial band, containing several blackish lunular 

 parallel lines, the middle line being chain-like ; exterior border with 

 a series of white spots below the apex, a large medial spot, and a 

 smaller spot at the posterior angle : hind wing white, with short 

 blackish-cinereous lunular streaks from abdominal margin ; an ex- 

 terior marginal lunular line. Palpi, head, and thorax ferruginous 

 brown ; two black metallic tufts on lower part of thorax. Abdomen 

 white, with transverse cinereous streaks. Cilia alternate white and 

 brown. Underside cinereous white : fore wing with three cinereous- 

 brown transverse discal lines, and broad marginal band with a sub- 

 marginal row of white dots : hind wing with a curved discal spot 

 and three indistinct cinereous-brown outer sinuous lines, a submar- 

 ginal line, and darker lunular marginal line. 



Expanse If -inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. 



M. cupreata, n. sp. 



Male glossy cupreous brown : fore wing with several basal trans- 



