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by two narrower arms to those on the inner margin, and capping 

 the arch of ground-colour before mentioned ; the last quarter of the 

 costa is narrowly black, which shade is continued round into the 

 hind margin ; the apical fringes are wl\itish ; a narrow black line 

 runs from the base along the inner margin to the first quadrate spot ; 

 all the black markings are finely edged with lustrous coppery scales. 

 Hind wing with a broad black border and coppery fringes. 



The specimen in Major Yerbury's consignment from Thundiani 

 is also single, but a female, and though differing considerably, as 

 will be seen, from the male above described, is almost certainly the 

 female of the same species. The ground-colour, especially of the 

 hind wing, is paler, more orange ; the first quadrate spot on the 

 inner margin is present, but with both edges curved, not perpen- 

 dicular ; united also, as in the male, with the two black costal spots ; 

 the second quadrate spot on the inner margin is reduced to a flat 

 rectangle, while the narrow arm, which should connect it with the 

 middle costal blotch, is replaced, in the left wing, by a nearly 

 confluent black spot, and, in the right, by a round isolated one ; 

 while in both wings the outer process towards the apex is repre- 

 sented only by a small round spot. The black apical margin, and 

 the black basal streak along the inner margin are both present. 

 Hind wing bright orange, having, in place of the broad black border 

 of the male, two large separate round black spots, one at the 

 apex, the other on the hind margin, and an elongated black mark 

 along the inner margin from the base. 



In both sexes the abdominal segments are ringed ahove with 

 orange-yellow, but with white on the sides and underneath. The 

 single female is considerably larger than the male, but this difference 

 in size, as well as that in the constitution of the marginal band in 

 the hind wing, is observable in several allied insects ; as, for example, 

 in Nepita conferta, Wlk., from Ceylon, and Nepita anila, Moore, 

 from Bengal. In Eubaplie brevicornis, Wlk., E. guniaria, Grrote, 

 and in two other unnamed species of the same genus from N. 

 America, of which only a female example in each case is represented 

 in the Brit. Mus. collection, this breaking up of the band of the 

 hind wing still more closely approaches that which occurs in P. 

 vulneratus. 



Family Arctiid^!;. 



10. Spilosoma sangaica. (No. 7.) 



Spilosoma sangaica, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 294<. 



A single female from Murree, dated 13th August, 1885, in very 

 bad condition, having been apparently under water, is, as far as can 

 be made out, identical with, or closely related to, this species. 



Walker's types are from Shanghai. 



Family Liparid^. 

 17. Charnidas aurantiaca, sp. n. 

 One male from Attock, April 16, 1887. 

 Fore wing unicolorous dull brown, with a darker spot at the end of 



