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a straight division. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs dusky red ; abdo- 

 men pale purplish red. Underside duller-coloured. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. 



Messata jEnescens, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside senescent-yellow : fore wing with three very 

 prominent oblique, transverse, discal purple brown-speckled bands, 

 the two inner bands linear and curved, the outer one composed of 

 broad lunules ; an inner series of three less oblique, very indistinct, 

 and sparsely speckled bands : hind wing with a distinct submarginal 

 broad purple brown-speckled lunular band. Thorax, head, and 

 fore legs dark ochreous-yellow. Underside duller-coloured, with the 

 bands as above, very indistinct. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. 



May be distinguished from M. plumipes (Dreata plumipes, Walk. 

 Catal. Lep. B. M. iv. p. 907) by the curvature and greater obliquity 

 of the bands on the fore wing, and by the lunular submarginal baud 

 on the hind wing. 



Messata quadrifasciata, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside brownish ochreous : fore wing numerously 

 speckled with black scales; two oblique transverse black discal 

 bands, the inner band broad and very prominent : hind wing with 

 two black-speckled bands, the inner median, the outer indistinct. 

 Thorax, head, and underside brighter ochreous ; the inner band on 

 both wings prominent. 



Expanse 2§ inches. 



Hab. Colombo, Ceylon (Hutchison). In coll. F. Moore. 



Messata fraterna, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 6.) 



Female. Upperside reddish-ferruginous, palest on hind wing : 

 fore wing with two oblique, submarginal, indistinct, narrow dusky 

 bands, and hind wing with a single outer band. Underside much 

 paler. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. 



Messata vialis, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside luteous-brown : fore wing with a prominent 

 oblique discal black band with pale yellow outer border : hind wing 

 with a very indistinct median and submarginal transverse dusky 

 bands. Underside paler ; a dusky oblique band on fore wing slightly 

 apparent. Front of head, palpi, and legs above dark brown. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum and 

 F. Moore. 



