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ABRAXAS POLIARIA, 0. Sp. 
Male and female. Wings cinereous brown; both sexes sparsely 
irrorated with orange-yellow ; an ill-defined dusky spot at end of the 
cell in the fore wing, and a less defined transverse discal and a medial 
narrow shade on both wings; the discal shade on the fore wing being 
slightly recurved, the medial straight, and those on the hind wing, 
when apparent, incurved ; body deep yellow, spotted with slaty black ; 
antennze in male thick, setaceous, slender in female; antenne and 
legs slaty black. 
Expanse of wings, 3 14, 2 14 inch. 
Hab. Nilgiri Hills, 6700 feet. Four pairs received from Mr. 
Hampson. 
Nearest to A. ditritaria, Walker, the wings of which, in both 
sexes, are both densely covered with bluish-grey strigee, these strigz 
being more or less confluent on the fore wing, and in the male en- 
tirely covering that wing: the outer shady line on the fore wing hasa 
blackish pomt on each vein. The antenne of the male of a. ditri- 
taria are slender and minutely ciliated on both sides. In A. poliaria 
the antennz of the male are thicker and somewhat flattened. 
ABRAXAS OSTRINA, 0. Sp. 
Male. Antennee, head, body above and below, and legs and wings 
above and below of a uniform dark violaceous greyish black; fore 
wings above with a yellowish basal spot, two antemedial and two sub- 
apical costal yellow marks like short inward streaks, and a similar 
whitish mark in the middle of the abdominal margin of the hind 
wings, with a corresponding spot on the costa, and a point between 
like the indication of a medial line. Underside same as above, but in 
one of the examples some of the spots above and below are absent ; 
head and thorax marked with bright ochreous, abdomen with similarly 
coloured bands ; below, there is one ochreous spot in the centre of the 
abdomen, and some ochreous tufts at the base of the legs. 
The female differs from the male in being somewhat paler and 
having the pale yellowish-white costal marks larger, and in having 
a broad disjointed white band containing one or two black spots 
across the centre of the hind wings; underside same as upperside. 
Expanse of wings 1-°,—1,5, inch. 
Hab. Nilgiri Hills. Three perfect specimens received from Mr. 
Hampson. . 
Distinguishable from all other described Indian species by its in- 
tensely dark colour and peculiarly disposed markings. 
ABRAXAS TODARA, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. figs. 13, 14.) 
Male and female. Yellowish white; head and body yellow, spotted 
with black ; legs yellowish beneath and purple-brown above ; antennee 
black ; fore wings sparsely speckled with dark purple-brown and 
with five large equidistant patches on the costal border, the latter, 
excepting the basal patch, are more or less confluent, with a trans- 
versely disposed irregular-shaped medial and discal patch; cilia 
