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glossy band ; indistinct lunules on outer margin of wings with 

 purple-grey borders ; black spots on hind wing prominent. 



Expanse 2i inches. 



Hab. Ceylon and S. India. In Coll. F. Moore. 



ClRROCHROA MITHILA. 



Male. Upperside pale ferruginous : fore wings with the blackish 

 marginal band narrow, its inner row of lunules palely denned ; 

 medial transverse line scarcely visible on either wing ; the row of 

 black spots, white spot on anterior margin, and outer marginal 

 lnnular lines of hind wing also very palely defined. Underside 

 dull testaceous, glossed with greyish purple ; medial band obsolete, 

 its place faintly defined by a dusky straight outer streak and narrow 

 inner line ; spots on hind wing partly obsolete. 



Expanse 1§ inch. 



Hab. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. 



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Genus Cynthia, Fabr. 

 Cynthia asela. 



Male. Upperside golden yellow, palest across the disk : fore 

 wing with dusky black discoidal streaks, medial transverse irre- 

 gular line, and two marginal zigzag lines ; parallel to the inner 

 marginal line is a row of ill-defined small black spots, the apical 

 spot being pale-centred : hind wing with dusky black transverse 

 medial line, two marginal lunular lines, and two submarginal white- 

 centred ocelli. Underside uniform yellow outward from medial 

 dusky line, the base suffused with ochry red ; basal streaks bright 

 red : fore wing with three contiguous apical white spots, inner mar- 

 ginal straight pale dusky red line, almost obsolete outer marginal 

 zigzag line ; a discal transverse zigzag line on both wings ; mar- 

 ginal lunular lines and extreme margin of hind wing from tail to 

 anal angle chestnut-brown ; a transverse streak passing the ocelli 

 on hind wing. 



Female. Upperside greyish blue, this colour pervading the wings 

 to beyond the medial band, the margin being blackish brown ; 

 medial white band on hind wing terminating at second subcostal 

 vein. Underside similar to C. erota. 



Expanse, c? 3£, $ 4 inches. 



Hab. Ceylon. In Coll. British Museum and F. Moore. 



Genus Symbrenthia, Hiibn. 

 Symbrenthia brabira. 



Male. Upperside black, with very broad irregular-margined 

 orange-red bands, disposed as in <S. hypselis. Underside deep 

 yellow : fore wing imperfectly tessellated with black at the base, 

 below and at the apex, and on the middle : hind vying tessellated at 

 the base and on abdominal margin ; the submarginal band formed 



