432 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON PYTHON CURTUS. 
alternated with purple-brown ; hind wing whiter than the fore wing, 
speckled with grey-brown, and having a greyish-brown subbasal and 
a discal narrow fascia, both of which are more or less broken and 
dentated, cilial spots, and a spot at end of all. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 14, 2 14 inch. 
Hab. Nilgiris. 
Four pairs in Mr. Moore’s collection and one male 
received by me from Mr. Lindsay. 
Nearest to A. fasciatia, Guérin, Deless. Voy. pl. 26, but differs in 
its smaller size and in being more numerously speckled on both wings, 
also in the irregular-shaped patches on the fore wing. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Fig. 1. 
. Migoplastes hampsoni, 3, u. sp., p. 402. 
. Milionia luculenta, n. sp., p. 423. 
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3. Note on Python curtus. 
It is surprising that a large and fine Snake inhabiting a compara- 
tively well-explored district should have so long escaped detection, 
as is the case with Python curtus, of which a specimen from 
Malacca (figured on Plate XLV.) is now exhibited in the Society’s 
SOMIATB Ob 
Prater XLIII. 
Spilarctia ummera, 9. n. sp., p. 405. 
Miresa crispa, n. sp., p. 409. 
. Ophiusa triangulata, nu. sp., p. 414. 
. Notioptera properta, 3, n. sp., p- 400.} 
. Cania pulligonis, 3, un. sp., p. 408. 
ee Desp.) Pp: 40G. 
. Thosea rara, n. sp., p. 408. 
. Llydna diurna, n. sp., p. 412. 
. Syntomis wimberleyi, u. sp., p. 400. 
. Parasa fumosa, n. sp., p. 408. 
. Somena alyecta, 2, un. sp., p. 405. 
. Aginna levieula, 3, n. sp., p. 417. 
. Aloa insoluta, n. sp., p. 404. 
Prats XLIV. 
. Rhodoneura albatalis, §, 2. sp., p. 422. 
—— ——, 9,n. sp., p. 422. 
. Pterothysanus noble, 3, n. sp., p. 401. 
. Pandesmajubra, 2, n. sp., p. 413. 
. Stemmatophora foliata, n. sp., p. 418. 
Synclera nemoralis, n.sp., p. 421. 
. Nosophora ly rymphatalis, n. Sp., p. 420. 
. Phyletis borealis, n. sp., p. £27. 
. Cidaria multifari ia, n. sp., p. 429. 
. Spica luteola, 3,n. sp., p. +24. 
. Zonora opiparalis, $, n. sp., p. 419. 
. Nausinoé ewroalis, n. sp., p. 420. 
. Abraxas todara, G,n.sp., p. 431. 
. —— — ,, 9, usp, p. 431. 
[Received September 13, 1889.] 
(Plate XLV.) 
By G. A. Bounrncer. 
