412 ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM THE HIMALAYAS. [JunC 19, 



pale straw-yellow ; veins and outer border slightly speckled witli 

 minute red scales ; cilia with a pale red inner border. Underside 

 pale ochreous-yellow ; veins of fore wing and costal border of hind 

 wing ochreous-red. Thorax, front of head, palpi, and legs above 

 ochreous ; fore tibial claws black ; abdomen pale straw-yellow. 



Expanse I5 inch. 



Hah. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. 



Fam. AnthophilidjE. 



Genus Metachrostis, Hiibner. 

 (Syn. Leptosia, Guenee.) 



Metachrostis contingens, n. sp. 



Dark grey. Fore wing with a basal and three equidistant trans- 

 verse more or less interrupted brown waved bands ; the third band 

 broadest at end of the cell and there forming a reniform spot ; before 

 which is an orbicular spot ; a submarginal sinuous pale line. Hind 

 wing cinereous-grey, with short, posterior, sinuous, brown-speckled 

 bands ; a marginal black luuular line to both wings. Body, palpi, 

 and tarsal bands dark grey ; legs cinereous. 



Expanse -^-^ inch. 



Uab. Dharmsala. In coll. British Museum. 



Fam. AcoNTiiDyE. 

 Genus Canna, Walker. 

 Canna splendens, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside : fore wing with a large, broad, waved-bordered, 

 pale emerald-green patch, which terminates in a small lower spot on 

 hind margin near the base, both with dark brown speckled margins ; 

 outer area of wing pale green, crossed by a white lunular discal line ; 

 a white-centred brown anterior spot and a white posterior spot on 

 exterior margin ; two minute spots also on costa before the apex ; 

 cilia green, alternated with brown ; hind wing pale pinkish-brown ; 

 margin palest. Body pale brown : front of thorax and vertex 

 emerald-green, hind part of thorax and dorsal tuft on middle of 

 abdomen black-fringed. 



Expanse 1|^ inch. 



Hab. Dharmsala, 6200 feet ; August. In coll. British Museum. 



