392 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [June 29, 
165. EprrrponIA SIGNATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 9.) 
Chocolate-brown ; costa and discoidal area of primaries and centre 
of secondaries more or less suffused with ochraceous, the costal area of 
the latter wings, excepting at apex, widely bright ochreous; wings 
striated throughout with black, the primaries crossed in the middle 
by two well-separated blackish stripes, angulated towards costal 
margin; an oblique snow-white subcostal spot near apex; secon- 
daries with a double blackish line from centre of abdominal margin 
to discoidal cell: body greyish: wings below bright ochreous with 
broad dark-brown tapering apical borders and a number of scattered 
black striations; primaries with a discal abbreviated band com- 
mencing below the white subapical spot; two central black 
lines; secondaries with an ill-defined central black line; pectus 
whitish, venter ochraceous. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 
Murree, 2nd, 9th, and 28th August, 1885. 
ZERENID&. 
166. ABRAXAS FUSCESCENS, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 10.) 
Primaries whity brown, speckled and mottled with blackish ; base 
of costa ochreous ; two widely separated divergent bands of spots, 
formed by blackish mottling, limiting the central area; a spot of a 
similar character on the costa just beyond the middle, an oblique 
oval spot at the end of the cell, and a spot immediately beyond 
the outer band at centre of second median interspace: secondaries 
sericeous creamy white, sparsely speckled with dark grey ; a spot at 
the end of the cell and a slightly sinuous discal series of the same 
colour: head, collar, and tegule ochreous spotted with black, 
remainder of body cream-coloured with dorsal black spots: pri- 
maries below paler than above, the costa slightly ochraceous ; body 
below yellowish cream-coloured, the venter with four series of black 
spots. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 
Kalabagh, 16th September, 1885. 
167. ABRAXAS VIRGINALIS, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 11.) 
Wings above pure white; base of primaries ochreous, dotted with 
black and bounded by an irregular series of brownish dots; an im- 
perfect band at basal fourth and the costa mottled with pale silver- 
grey ; an annulus of the same colour closing the cell ; two contiguous 
sinuous series of annular silver-grey spots across the disk, the inner 
series with black-dotted ochreous centres; an ochreous streak partly 
connecting the two series between the third median branch and the 
inner margin; three larger grey spots and a number of scattered 
annular dots beyond the discal series; six ocelloid marginal spots 
extending into the fringe: secondaries almost exactly as in d. pan- 
taria ; body paler than in the latter species : under surface of wings 
more strongly marked than above, but without the ochreous tinting. 
Expanse of wings 44 millim. 
Murree, 13th August, 1885. 
